Six: Captain Herbert Edward Long, Royal Army Service Corps, late Sherwood Rangers

1914-15 Star (2005 Pte., Sher. Rang.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these three unnamed, mounted as worn with space for O.B.E., good very fine (6) £160-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Great War Medals to Yeomanry Regiments.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 9 June 1938. ‘Captain Herbert Edward Long, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Somaliland Protectorate’.

Private Herbert Edward Long, Sherwood Rangers, entered the Egypt theatre of war on 27 April 1915. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 28 April 1917 and was advanced to Lieutenant on 28 April 1918.

Post-war, Long entered the Colonial Service. He was appointed Vice-Consul at Jijiga, Abyssinia, in November 1927; Acting Consul at Harar in 1929 and Consul at Jijiga in October 1930. He was then in charge of the Consulate at Harar, November 1931-May 1932 and again during December 1932-September 1934. He was awarded the O.B.E. (Civil) in the Birthday Honours of 1938 as District Officer in the Somaliland Protectorate. During the Second World War he served in the 24th Middlesex Battalion of the Home Guard. With some copied service details.