Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War ‘North-West Europe operations’ M.B.E. group of eight awarded to Captain P. Law, Army Air Corps and Parachute Regiment

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Capt. P. Law, M.B.E., A.A.C.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with Second Award Bar (Lieut. P. Law, M.B.E., Para. Regt.) mounted as worn, generally very fine or better (8) £800-£1,200

Provenance: J. B. Hayward, August 1971; Dix Noonan Webb, June 2014.

M.B.E. London Gazette 14 June 1945.

Peter Acheson Law was born in 1921 into the Irish landed gentry and was educated St. Columba’s College, Dublin. He attested for the Royal Irish Rifles (Territorials) in April 1939, received an emergency commission on 9 March 1940 and joined the 2nd Cameronians in June. In August 1941 he was posted to the Middle East, where he served as a parachute instructor with the rank of War Substantive Lieutenant. Transferring to the Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps on 11 May 1943, he joined 21 Independent Parachute Company and was awarded his M.B.E. in respect of his services as a Temporary Captain with this unit in North-West Europe. Remaining with them he served in Palestine and later as a parachute instructor in India.

Law’s Efficiency Medal (Parachute Regiment) and the bar (Royal Ulster Rifles) were both announced in the London Gazette 14 April 1950. Joining the Royal Berkshire Regiment Army Emergency Reserve of Officers in 1954 he remained in the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers until 1964 when he was removed on conviction by the Civil Power and deprived of the rank of Honorary Captain; the self-styled ‘Juke Box King’, he had been found guilty of fraud and was sentenced to six years in prison. He died on 2 June 1979.

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