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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 132

Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant

The O.B.E. pair awarded to Assistant Area Officer A. W. McNair, C.S.I., Special Constabulary, late Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Rohilkhand Division, United Provinces

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st Type, Civil Division, Officer's (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt, in its damaged case of issue; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R. (Asst. Area Offr. Arthur W. McNair), in its named box of issue (Devonshire), officially re-impressed naming, very fine (2)

[C.S.I.] London Gazette 3 June 1924.

O.B.E. London Gazette 8 January 1919 (Magistrate and Collector, United Provinces).

Arthur Wyndham McNair was born at Croydon, on 23 August 1872, the son of John McNair and Sarah Paine. Educated at St Paul's School and Balliol College, Oxford, he afterwards went out to India. Made a Major in the 9th Mussoorie Battalion, Indian Defence Force on 1 April 1917, he went on to take an O.B.E. and C.S.I. in the Indian Civil Service and died at Lewdon, Devon in March 1965; sold together with the Warrant for his O.B.E..

For his C.S.I., please see the next Lot in this Auction.

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Estimate
£140 to £180

Starting price
£110