Medals for the Egypt and Sudan Campaigns from the collection of Colin Narbeth

An O.B.E. group of six attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. R. Orlebar, Norfolk Regiment and Equitorial Corps, Sudan Defence Force

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon, slight enamel damage, all unnamed, mounted as worn; together with a corresponding mounted set of six miniature dress medals, very fine and better (14) £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for the Egypt and Sudan Campaigns from the collection of Colin Narbeth.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 24 April 1953.

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 April 1941, 13 January 1944.

Egypt, Order of the Nile London Gazette 8 June 1945.

John Hatton Rolt Orlebar was born on 19 February 1907, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Rouse Boughton Orlebar, D.L., J.P., of Hinwick House, Bedford. Educated at Malvern and the Royal Military College, he entered the Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Norfolk Regiment in 1926. Attached to the Sudan Defence Force, 1933-45. He was promoted to Lieutenant, 1929; Captain 1937; Acting Major, January-April 1942; Temporary Major, April-November 1942; War Substantive Major, November 1942; Major 1943; Acting Lieutenant-Colonel, August-November 1942; Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, November 1942-December 1944; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1950; Temporary Colonel, 1948-51 and 1953-54; Colonel, February 1954, and local Brigadier, June 1948-May 1951. He was employed as G.S.O.2, January-August 1942; A.A.G., August 1942-March 1943; A.M.S., H.Q., B.A.O.R., September 1946-March 1947; Military Attaché at Baghdad, June 1948-March 1951; A.Q.M.G. with the rank of Colonel at the War Office, September 1953-August 1956. He was appointed Commandant of the School of Infantry, Small Arms Wing in 1956.

Sold with a ‘S.D.F.’ button and a ‘S.D.F.’ pin-backed badge and some copied research.