Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry

An inter-War M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Major E. G. Baker, Hampshire Regiment, later The Princess Beatrice’s (Isle of Wight Rifles) Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army, who was severely wounded at the First Battle of Dorian on 24 April 1917 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. E. G. Baker. Hamps: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. E. G. Baker.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated 1947, with integral top riband bar, mounted court-style, generally very fine and better (7) £300-£400 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 2 January 1939: Major Ernest George Baker, The Princess Beatrice’s (Isle of Wight Rifles) Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army (Captain, Retired Pay, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, the Hampshire Regiment). T.D. London Gazette 25 July 1947. Ernest George Baker was born in 1894, the son of the Quartermaster of the 12th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 12th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment on 7 December 1914. He served with the 12th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 September 1915, before proceeding with the Battalion to Salonika in November of that year, and continued to serve in the Balkans, being severely wounded in the chest on 24 April 1917 during the First Battle of Dorian. Invalided home, in April 1918 he was appointed an Instructor at the School of Instruction, Osborne, Isle of Wight, where he remained until the end of the War. Promoted Captain in January 1925, he was appointed Adjutant of the 8th Battalion (Princess Beatrice’s Isle of Wight Rifles), and remained in that post until November 1929. After a brief spell with the 1st Battalion in India, he transferred to Princess Beatrice’s (Isle of Wight Rifles) Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army in December 1932, and saw further service with the Royal Artillery at home during the Second World War. Appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Hampshire in 1956, he died at Wootton Bridge, Isle of Wight, on 14 October 1968. Sold with copied research.