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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 251

A rare 'Dutch East Indies' M.B.E. awarded to Chaplain to the Forces The Rev. J. C. H. A. Fordham, Royal Army Chaplains Department

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast Badge, silver; 1939-45; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, the Second War campaign awards all privately engraved 'Rev. J. C. H. A. Fordham'; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. E. Asia 1945-46 (The Rev. J. C. H. A. Fordham. C.F.4. R.A.Ch.D.); Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, the reverse dated '1961', silver-gilt and silver, very fine (8)

M.B.E. London Gazette 26 June 1947.

James Charles Horace Adcock Fordham was born in November 1911 in Durham and by 1939 was serving in the Royal Army Chaplains Department. During the Second World War his service included time aboard Triphibian and he was commissioned on 15 August 1944. Having served in the Dutch East Indies, he was awarded the Efficiency Decoration (London Gazette 14 July 1961, refers). Fordham died in 1993 at Preston, Lancashire.



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£700

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£400