Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

A Great War M.B.E. group of five to Captain H. J. Jordan, Army Service Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; Queen’s South Africa 1899-19025 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, Orange Free State, Cape Colony (15514 S-Sejt., A.S.C.), clasps mounted in that order, unofficial rivets between clasps three and four; King’s South Africa, 2 clasps (5514 S.Q.M. Sjt., A.S.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Captain, M.B.E., Union D. Forces), renamed; Army L.S.& G.C., E.VII.R. (155114 S.S. Mjr., A.S.C.) good very fine and better (5) £220-260

M.B.E. London Gazette 19 December 1918.

Herbert James Jordan Esq., ‘... for valuable services rendered within the Union of South Africa in connection with the campaigns in German South-West Africa and German East Africa.’ Recommendation states: ‘1st Grade Clerk, Department of Defence. Has rendered excellent and constant service in the General Staff Section since the commencement of the War.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 22 August 1918.

Captain Herbert James Jordan. Recommendation states: ‘For consistent good work and devotion to duty from the outbreak of the campaign. The control of all routine work of the General Staff Section had to be handed over by me to someone else during the period in question and this I entrusted to Captain Jordan, the results of which were satisfactory in every way.’

Sold with copied research papers. Q.S.A. & K.S.A. clasps confirmed except for ‘Cape Colony’.