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Auction: 20003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 256

A 1948 O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Colonel and Chief Paymaster J. C. L. Thomas, Royal Army Pay Corps, who received a 'mention' for North West Europe during the Second World War and who was made Chief Paymaster in 1956

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer's 2nd type breast Badge, silver-gilt; 1939-1945 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Korea Medal 1950-53, 1st type, (Lt-Col. J. C. L. Thomas. O.B.E. R.A.P.C.); U.N. Medal for Korea 1950-54, minor official correction to sixth, good very fine (7)

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1948.

John Christopher Lloyd Thomas was commissioned as a 'University Candidate' into the Territorial Army to be a 2nd Lieutenant (No.44227) in the General List on 18 August 1929, and then transferred to the Regular Army as a 2nd Lieutenant with the Prince of Wales's Volunteers on 19 February 1930, with seniority from 5 December 1925. By the outbreak of the Second World War he was a Captain and Paymaster with the Royal Army Pay Corps, and was promoted to war substantive Major and Staff Paymaster Class 2 on 5 December 1942. Present during the operations in North West Europe, Thomas was a temporary Lieutenant Colonel and Staff Paymaster Class 1 when he was 'mentioned' (London Gazette 8 November 1945, refers).

Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and Staff Paymaster Class 1 on 1 February 1951, he was made Colonel and Chief Paymaster on 12 April 1956 and retired 'on account of disability' on 5 June 1965; sold with copied research.


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Estimate
£300 to £400

Starting price
£230

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