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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 97

A Post-War M.B.E., Order of St. John Group of Eight to Second Lieutenant L.J. Pitt, Gloucestershire Home Guard, Late Gloucestershire Regiment
a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Member's (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver
b) The Most Venerable Order of St. John, Serving Brother's breast Badge, circular type, silver and enamel
c) 1914-15 Star (13944 Pt. L.J.J. Pitt. Glouc: R.)
d) British War and Victory Medals (13944 Cpl. L.J.J. Pitt. Glouc. R.)
e) Defence and War Medals
f) Jubilee 1935, generally very fine or better, mounted as originally worn, with newspaper cutting (8)

M.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1959 Lancelot John Pitt, Esq., Safety and Civil Defence Officer, Fielding and Platt, Ltd., Gloucester.

Order of St. John, Serving Brother London Gazette 11.7.1961 Lancelot John Pitt

Second Lieutenant Lancelot John Pitt, M.B.E., enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regiment and served during the Great War with the 8th Battalion on the Western Front from 18.7.1915; after the Great War served with the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, and advanced Sergeant Major and Senior Warrant Officer, served with them for five months during the Second World War; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 1.2.1941, and served with the 5th (Gloucester) Battalion, Gloucestershire Home Guard; in civilian life he served as the Civil Defence and Industrial Safety Officer of Fielding and Platt Ltd., and was chairman of the Gloucester Industrial Safety Group.

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