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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 642

A Great War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain A. I. Ward, Durham Light Infantry, who died in service with the Army Dental Corps during the Second World War

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member's 1st Type breast Badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. A. I. Ward. Durh. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (2. Lieut. A. I. Ward.), very fine (4)

M.B.E. London Gazette 22 March 1919.

Alexander Ivan Ward was born in 1886, the son of Dr. William John Cuthbert Ward and Violet Anne Ward, of Harrogate, Yorkshire. He served in France as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 11th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry from 20 July 1915. He had earned a 'mention' (London Gazette 4 January 1917, refers) and an M.B.E., besides being made Temporary Captain. During the Second World War he was re-commissioned into the Royal Norfolk Regiment and then joined the Army Dental Corps. Reported dangerously ill, he died on 26 March 1943, aged 57. Ward was buried in the Basingstoke Cemetery.

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