The Great War M.B.E. awarded to F. W. S. Thake, Esq., Commandant in Charge of Motor Ambulance Transport, Reading

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, the reverse contemporarily engraved ‘1914-18 Comdt. F. Thake Berks 13 V.A.D.’, housed in a somewhat later M.B.E. (Mil.) Garrard, London, case, nearly extremely fine £100-£140

M.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918: Frank Edward Seymour Thake, Esq., Commandant in Charge of Motor Ambulance Transport, Reading:
‘For services in connection with the War.’