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№ 574

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£100

An O.B.E. pair to Chief Officer E. McKinnell, Leicester Fire Brigade, later President of the Institute of Fire Engineers

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge; Defence Medal, unnamed; together with Institute of Fire Engineers Past President’s Badge, rev. engraved, ‘Errington McKinnell, O.B.E., President I.F.E., 1947-1948’, 31 x 23mm., silver and enamel, hallmarks for London 1947, lacks pin clasp; also with N.F.S. cap badge, good very fine (4) £100-140

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O.B.E. London Gazette 4 January 1943. ‘Errington McKinnell Esq,. Fire Force Commander, No.3 Area, National Fire Service.’

Errington McKinnell was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1904. He joined the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Fire Brigade as a Fireman Mechanic in 1923 and attained the rank of Station Officer at Newcastle in 1935. Promoted Chief Officer at Swansea in 1938, he became a Home Office Inspector in 1939. He was appointed Fire Force Commander in 1941; was awarded the O.B.E. in 1943 and was appointed Chief Officer at Leicester in 1948. A member of the Institute of Fire Engineers, he was President of the organisation during 1947-48. In addition to the above awards, he was also awarded the French Medal of Honour for Firemen. Sold with some copied research.