Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An M.B.E. group of six to Lieutenant-Colonel G. J. M. Peel, Royal Corps of Signals, late Surrey Yeomanry and Royal Flying Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., Territorial, 3 ‘G.VI.R.’ clasps, reverse of all three inscribed, ‘1951’, mounted for display, slight edge bruise to fifth medal, good very fine and better (6) £180-220

M.B.E. London Gazette 9 June 1938: ‘Major George John Morley Peel, T.D., 1st Anti-Aircraft Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.’

Efficiency Decoration London Gazette 28 August 1934: ‘Major, Air Defence Brigade Signals.

3 clasps to Efficiency Decoration London Gazette 16 February 1951; ‘Lieutenant-Colonel, M.B.E., T.D.’

George Peel was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Surrey Yeomanry (T.F.) on 6 March 1915, promoted Lieutenant in July 1917, attached to the R.F.C. early in 1918 and was Acting Captain in the R.A.F. by April 1918. He returned to the Territorial Force Establishment in 1919, serving with the Royal Corps of Signals, 26th (London) Signal Company. Peel attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in November 1938. He was released from service in 1944.