Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

Lot

№ 1291

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£85

A B.E.M. to T. T. Parham, Assistant Foreman of Laboratory, Royal Pakistan Navy Armament Depot

British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R. (Thomas Thompson Parham), in Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine £80-100

B.E.M. London Gazette 2 January 1956. ‘The Queen has been graciously pleased on the advice of Her Majesty’s Pakistan Ministers to approve the award ... to Thomas Thompson Parham, Assistant Foreman of Laboratory, Royal Pakistan Navy Armament Depot, Malir’. With copied Gazette entry - probably the last award gazetted by Pakistan as a British Dominion; the country becoming a Republic later that year.