Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Baltic 1919’ D.S.O. and Al Valore Militare group of five awarded to Captain W. E. B. Magee, Royal Navy, who was also awarded the C.B.E. in 1945 for services as a Commodore of Ocean Convoys 1941-45

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. W. E. B. Magee, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Commr. W. E. B. Magee. R.N.); Italy, Kingdom, Al Valore Militare, bronze, unnamed as issued, court mounted as worn, together with miniature ribbon bar, good very fine (5) £1,800-£2,200

C.B.E. London Gazette 11 December 1945.

D.S.O. London Gazette 8 March 1920: ‘Honours for services in the Baltic 1919; Lieut.-Commander W. E. B. Magee, for distinguished services in command of H.M.S. Watchman.’

Al Valore Militare, bronze London Gazette 16 March 1918; for services in H.M.S. Thisbee and in submarine hunting with the Harwich Force.

M.I.D. London Gazette 22 June 1917; 20 February 1919 (services in destroyers, Harwich Force, July to November 1918); 27 June 1944 (3 years services Ocean Convoys).

William Edward Blackwood Magee was born at Simla, Punjab, India, on 9 July 1886, son of Colonel A. H. Magee. He entered the Royal Navy on 15 September 1901; Midshipman, 30 January 1903; Sub-Lieutenant, 30 March 1906; Lieutenant, 31 October 1908; Lieutenant-Commander, 31 October 1913; Commander, 30 June 1921; Captain 30 June 1929; retired 9 July 1933; Commodore 2nd Class, R.N.R., 23 April 1941; Commodore of Ocean Convoys, Liverpool Convoy Pool [H.M.S. Eaglet, R.N. base, Liverpool], April 1941 to December 1944; Commodore of Ocean Convoys, Bombay Convoy Pool [H.M.S. Braganza, R.N. base, Bombay, India], December 1944 to May 1945; reverted to retired list 4 October 1945. Captain Magee died at Fordingbridge, Hampshire on 3 April 1981.