Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Anti-Submarine Work’ O.B.E. group of three awarded to Lieutenant A. B. Peattie, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. B. Peattie. R.N.V.R.) mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, good very fine (3) £140-£180

O.B.E. London Gazette 10 July 1919:
‘For valuable services in connection with anti-submarine work.’

Alexander Bonnie Peattie was born at Newington, Edinburgh, on 9 December 1891 and enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 1 November 1916. Posted to the Hydrophone Service, with the rate of Chief Petty Officer, he was commissioned temporary Lieutenant on 6 February 1918, and served on Hydrophone duties at Torquay, whilst borne on the books of H.M.S. Onyx. He was demobilised on 8 February 1919. For his services during the Great War on anti-submarine work he was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and was invested with his insignia t Buckingham Palace on 10 March 1920.

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