The Donald G. Mellen Collection

A Second World War ‘Home Guard’ C.B.E. group of five awarded to Colonel J. L. Williams, Llanelly Sector Carmarthenshire Home Guard

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck cravat; British War and Victory Medals (86852 Pte. J. L. Williams, R.W. Fus.); Defence Medal, unnamed; Coronation 1937 (Lt. Col. J. L. Williams.) privately engraved; together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals as above, good very fine (10) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Donald G. Mellen Collection.

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C.B.E. London Gazette 15 December 1944. ‘... in recognition of Meritorious Service in the Home Guard.’ ‘Colonel John Leslie Williams, D.L., Llanelly Sector, Carmarthenshire Home Guard.’

John Leslie Williams served in the Great War as a Private in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and later in the Welsh Regiment. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion (Territorial) Welch Regiment, 10 January 1922; promoted to Captain in the 4th (Carmarthenshire) Battalion (Territorial) Welch Regiment in December 1924; and Major, April 1930. Latterly Colonel in the Llanelly Sector, Carmarthenshire Home Guard for which service he was awarded the C.B.E. Another? officer with the same name and initials was War Substantive Lieutenant in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, May 1941; Temporary Captain, June 1941; Adjutant, February 1941. With original Buckingham Palace slip and letter relating to the award of the C.B.E. and with copied research.