Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A rare post-War O.B.E. (Civil), Great War M.B.E. (Military) group of five awarded to Captain D. P. Malyn, Royal Army Service Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. D. P. Malyn. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. D. P. Malyn.) mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (5) £500-£600

O.B.E. London Gazette 5 June 1952. ‘Manager, Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas), Cairo’.

M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919. ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Egypt’.

Donald Paton Malyn was born in the Parish of Braintree, Essex, on 5 July 1894. A Clerk at Barclays Bank, he enlisted at Chelmsford on 27 August 1914, and was serving as C.Q.M. Sergeant with 120 Coy. Army Service Corps when commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant on 12 April 1915. He entered the Balkan theatre of war on 10 June 1915, serving at the Stores Transit Depot at Helles, and afterwards at Alexandria Military Forwarding Depot where he remained for the duration of the war. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 1 March 1916, and Temp. Captain on 3 September 1917. He is shown in the Army List for 1918 as Military Forwarding Officer (Graded as Staff Captain), at Head Quarters, for embarkation duties.

A rare instance of a recipient of two classes of the Order of the British Empire which, because one is the Civil Division and the other the Military Division, he is properly allowed to wear together. He could, however, only use the higher post-nominal letters.