Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

A Second World War C.B.E. Group of ten awarded to Paymaster Captain B. Carter, Royal Navy

The Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (Asst. Payr., R.N., H.M.S. Swiftsure); 1914-15 Star (Asst. Payr., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Payr. Lt. Cr., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935 the first with detached suspension ring and the second with officially corrected initial, generally very fine and better (10) £250-300

C.B.E. London Gazette 11 June 1942.

Bernard Carter was born in June 1885 and was educated at Christ’s Hospital. Appointed an Assistant Clerk in the Royal Navy in July 1902, he was advanced to Clerk in the following year and to Assistant Paymaster in June 1906, all the while enjoying several seagoing appointments aboard capital ships. In April 1913 he joined H.M.S. Swiftsure, in which battleship he served until the end of the Great War, initially acting as Clerk to the Flag Officer’s Secretary during the Persian Gulf and Dardanelles operations, and latterly, with effect from June 1916, as a Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander. Remaining a Regular Officer after the War, Carter gained further advancement to Paymaster Commander while stationed in Tamar in Hong Kong in June 1924, his final appointment being in the Comus at Devonport prior to being placed on the retired list as a Captain in June 1935. Recalled on the renewal of hostilities, he served in Egypt as a Base Accountant Officer at Alexandria and was awarded the C.B.E. in the King’s Birthday Honours List of 1942. Carter retired to Dorsetshire and died in March 1954.