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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 143

A Second War 'Home Guard' 1944 O.B.E. Pair to Lieutenant-Colonel F.P. Marshall, Surrey Home Guard
a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Officer's (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt
b) Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine, with named card box of issue for the Defence Medal, addressed to 'Lt. Col. F.P. Marshall, Valmont, St. George's Hill, Weybridge, Surrey'

Three: Lieutenant L.H. Barnes, Surrey Home Guard, Late Grenadier Guards and Guards Machine Gun Corps
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. L.H. Barnes); Defence Medal, very fine

Four: Captain H.F. Wilson, Surrey Home Guard, Late Royal Army Medical Corps
1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, extremely fine, with Army Council enclosure and two named card boxes of issue, addressed to 'Dr. H.F. Wilson, Childe Okeford, Blandford, Dorset'; together with various letters, Release Certificate, and the recipient's Identity card

One: Captain S. Monkhouse, Surrey Home Guard
Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine, with the recipient's named Home Guard Service Certificate, Commission appointing Second Lieutenant Samuel Monkhouse an Officer in the home Guard, dated 21.5.1952, and two contemporary related cartoons

One: Private J. Procter, Surrey Home Guard
Defence Medal, nearly very fine, with the recipient's named 3rd (Weybridge) Battalion Certificate of Service

One: Sergeant L.G. Higgs, Surrey Home Guard
Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine, with the recipient's named Home Guard Service Certificate and named 4th (Guildford) Battalion Certificate of Merit; together with various other documents and insignia relating to the Surrey Home Guard (lot)

O.B.E. London Gazette 15.12.1944 Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Pinfold Marshall, 3rd Bn. Surrey Home Guard
'In recognition of Meritorious Service in the Home Guard.'

Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Pinfold Marshall, O.B.E., promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, 1.2.1941, and served as Commanding Officer of the 3rd (Weybridge) Battalion, Surrey Home Guard.

Lieutenant Lionel Hickman Barnes, born January 1881; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; called to the Bar, Inner Temple, 1904; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Grenadier Guards, 18.7.1916, and served during the Great War with the 3rd Guards Brigade, Machine Gun Corps on the Western Front from 14.2.1917; subsequently served with the 3rd (Weybridge) Battalion, Surrey Home Guard

Captain Herbert Frederick Wilson, Commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps, 26.9.1942; served as Sub-Unit Medical Officer, 9th (Oxted) Battalion, Surrey Home Guard; advanced Captain.

Captain Samuel Monkhouse served with the 3rd (Weybridge) Battalion, Surrey Home Guard, 26.5.1940 - 31.12.1944; promoted Lieutenant, 1.2.1941.

Private J. Proctor served with the 3rd (Weybridge) Battalion, Surrey Home Guard, 18.7.1940 - 31.12.1944.

Sergeant L.G. Higgs served with the 4th (Guildford) Battalion, Surrey Home Guard, June 1940 - 31.12.1944.

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