Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An Order of St. John group of four awarded to Superintendent H. E. Rand, St. John Ambulance Brigade, late Private, Hampshire Regiment

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse engraved ‘Supt H. E. Rand Portsmouth Div. S.J.A.A. 1928’, edge bruise; British War Medal 1914-20 (203912 Pte. H. E. Rand. Hamps. R.); Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Pte. H. E. Rand.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, straight bar suspension, with 3 Additional Award Bars (3458. Supt. H. E. Rand. Portsmouth Div. No. 2 Dist. S.J.A.B. 1923.) mounted for wear, generally good very fine (4) £120-£160

Horace Edwin Rand served with the St. John Ambulance Brigade prior to the Great War, before serving at home with the Hampshire Regiment (M.I.C. gives BWM as sole entitlement). After the war Rand advanced to Superintendent of the Portsmouth Division, and was employed as a Registrar of Births and Deaths in Hampshire. He resided at “The Gables”, King’s Road, Cowplain, Hampshire, and died in March 1940.