Auction Catalogue

17 September 2004

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 284

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17 September 2004

Hammer Price:
£130

A post-war M.B.E. group of six awarded to Lieutenant (S.D.) A. Wright, Royal Navy, onetime attached Royal Australian Navy

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals, mounted as worn, contact wear and polished, about very fine or better (6) £120-150

M.B.E. London Gazette 10 June 1961.

Sold with an Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment Christmas card and three photographs, the latter including the recipient wearing his medals on the occasion of a civic gathering at Port Talbot in 1968.