Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain J. C. Patterson, South Staffordshire Regiment, later Procurator Fiscal, Hamilton

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. J. C. Patterson.); Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style as worn, good very fine (4) £160-£200

O.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1959: Joseph Clarence Patterson, Esq., lately Procurator Fiscal, Hamilton.

Joseph Clarence Patterson was commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant in the South Staffordshire Regiment on 16 November 1915, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front. He was appointed to the Procurator Fiscal Services in September 1928.