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A Great War O.B.E. pair to Commander P. Herbert, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military), 1st type, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British War Medal 1914-20 (Commr., R.N.V.R.) good very fine (2) £130-160
0.Philip Herbert, was born in 1867, the son of George Herbert, a barrister-at-law. Appointed Commander, R.N.V.R. in March 1915, he served aboard the hired yacht Ilex from that date, then on the accommodation ship Boadicea from July 1915, special service at Egmont (Malta base) from January 1916 and at the Admiralty from January 1917. Awarded the O.B.E. (London Gazette 7.1.1918) ‘for services in connection with the war’. After the war he was a J.P. for Devon
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