Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain A. I. P. Browne, M.B.E., Royal Engineers, attached Postal Department, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, who later served as Postmaster at Peshawar, India

British War and Victory Medals, with small sized M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. A. I. P. Browne.); Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Vol. A. Browne. 1st Punj. Vol. Rif.) engraved naming, nearly extremely fine (3) £180-£220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Laban Collection of Great War Awards.

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M.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 3 July 1926, as Postmaster, Peshawar, India.

M.I.D. London Gazette 12 January 1920 (Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force), Postal Department

Albert Ignatius Patrick Browne served during the Great War as a Captain in the Royal Engineers, being appointed Temporary Captain on 16 December 1917, serving attached to the Indian Postal Department. He relinquished his commission on 28 June 1919 and later became Postmaster at Peshawar, being appointed M.B.E. in 1926. He died in Brentford, Middlesex in 1943.