Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War ‘Air Raid Precautions’ O.B.E. group of four awarded to J. D. Tod, who served with the 19th (Lothians and Berwickshire) Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War, and was later appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Midlothian

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (8488 Pte. J. D. Tod. 19th Coy 6th Impl: Yeo:); Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (John D. Tod), mounted for wear alongside a King’s South Africa 1901-02, 1 clasp, South Africa 1901 (483 Pte. T. Uffendell. Rl: Scots.) to which the recipient was not entitled, half-hearted attempted erasure to KSA, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £260-£300

O.B.E. London Gazette 9 January 1946: John Dun Tod, Esq., J.P., D.L., Air Raid Precautions Controller, County of Midlothian.

John Dun Tod, an Engineer from Lasswade, Midlothian, was born on 29 January 1877. He attested into the 19th (Lothians and Berwickshire) Imperial Yeomanry, in Edinburgh, on 13 January 1900 and served in South Africa during the Second Boer War from 25 February 1900 to 28 February 1901 (and therefore not entitled to the King’s South Africa Medal). He was discharged in Edinburgh on 14 April 1901. Later appointed a Justice of the Peace, and a Deputy Lieutenant for Midlothian, he served as a Special Constable and, during the Second World War, was the Air Raid Precautions Controller for the County of Midlothian. He died, aged 80, in Edinburgh on 23 May 1957.

Sold with a corresponding mounted group of five miniatures, the QSA with the clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal.