An interesting Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Officer, O.B.E., 1st type, Civil Division on ladies bow, the arms on the reverse privately named to Maud Lilian Davys, 1st January 1919, and hallmarked London with the date letter ‘c’ for 1918, this being awarded in the London Gazette of 1st January 1919 for his work as First Assistant at the Military Food Laboratory at Kasauli, her other wartime work would included acting as an Assistant, Cholera Investigation, Kampti, Voluntary War Work in London, as a Clerk with No.2 Ambulance Train and as an Assistant with the Brigade Laboratory, Jullundur. She would go on to marry Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Irvine Davys, 9th Indian General Hospital and alter Indian Medical Service.
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Officer, O.B.E., 1st type, Civil Division on ladies bow, the arms on the reverse privately named ‘Maud Lilian Davys, 1st Jan 1919’ and hallmarked London with the date letter ‘c’ for 1918
Condition: some flaking to gilding, Very Fine
Along with a postcard sized image of the recipient.
Maud Lilian Spencer was born on 1st November 1887, the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel T.C.H. Spencer, of Beachview, Blackheath. Educated at London, Paris and Weimar. She married Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Irvine Davys. Prior to the war she served as an Assistant to the Brigade Laboroatory, Jubbulpore and Assistant at the Quetta Malaria Investigation (both unpaid). She was awarded the O.B.E. for service as First Assistant at the Military Food Laboratory at Kasauli. Other wartime work included Assistant, Cholera Investigation, Kampti, Voluntary War Work in London, as a Clerk with No.2 Ambulance Train; Assistant, Brigade Laboratory, Jullundur.
Maud Spencer would also later be awarded the Kaisar-I-Hind 1st Class for her work as an Assistant in the Military Food Laboratory at Kasauli.
Gerard Irvine Davys had seen Great War service in Mesopotamia from 14th November 1914, initially as a Major with the 9th Indian General Hospital, and later served as a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Indian Medical Service, his medal entitlement was an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E., Tibet Medal 1903-04, 1914-15 Star. While obviously entitled to a pair there is no confirmation that these were ever issued.
