A Third Afghan War O.B.E. group of six awarded to Major T. V. Brenan, C.B.E., Essex...

A Third Afghan War O.B.E. group of six awarded to Major T. V. Brenan, C.B.E., Essex Regiment and Intelligence Corps, who later service as Consul-General at Tunis and Rabat The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1918; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. T. V. Brenan. Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. T. V. Brenan.); Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Persia, Empire, Coronation of Shah Rajah Pahlevi Medal 1928, bronze, very fine and better (6) £1,400-£1,800 --- C.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1948: Terence Vincent Brenan, Esq., O.B.E., lately His Majesty's Consul-General at Rabat. O.B.E. London Gazette 29 September 1922: ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with the Afghan War 1919, to be dated 5 April 1921.’ Terence Vincent Brenan was born on 29 November 1897 and was educated at King William College, Isle of Man, and also in Switzerland and Germany. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment on 6 March 1915,he was promoted Lieutenant on 15 April 1915 and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front before transferring to the General List as a Special Service Officer on 19 May 1916, seeing further war service in East Persia from 1916 to 1919. Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services in connection with the Third Afghan War, he was, unusually, not entitled to an India General Service Medal. A Consular Officer for most of the inter-War period, his Who’s Who entry reads as follows: ‘In business HM Land Forces 1915 - 1919 as an Officer, Vice Consul at Burjand, Persia 1917, Acting Consul at Sistan, Persia 1920, Vice Consul Levant Consular Service 1921, Vice Consul Resht 1921 -23, Teheran 1924 - 32, Consul at Teheran 1932 - 35, in Foreign Office 1936 - 38, attached to the representative of Iran at the Coronation 1937, Consul of Sofia 1938, in charge of Consulate at Mersin, Turkey May - October 1941, Consul at Shiraz November 1941 to October 1943, when transferred to Damascus as Consul and Political Officer to the Spears Military Mission, Consul General at Tunis 1944 - 46, at Rabat 1946 - 47, retired 1947. Director of Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, Beirut 1948 - 53.’ During the Second World War Brenan held the rank of Major serving in the Intelligence Corps. Appointed a Commander of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire upon his retirement from the Consular Service, he died on 2 November 1974. Sold with copied research.