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Medal, order   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Medal, order
Object type Veterans/wars
Classification: 77402
Description
English: Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the British Empire- Breast Star Awarded to Donald Petrie Simson in 1939 an eight-pointed silver star with four large points and four smaller points, it bears a crimson ring with the motto of the Order inscribed. Within the ring are busts of George V and Mary of Teck are shown
Date George VI (1936 - 1952)-House of Windsor-English reign; 02 Oct 2012; 1939; 15 Aug 2012; Circa 1939
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length: 99.4mm
width: 86.5mm

diameter: 64.3mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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2012.13.2
Place of creation United Kingdom; New Zealand
Credit line Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2012.13.2
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Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the British Empire- Breast Star Awarded to Donald Petrie Simson in 1939 Lieut. (later Sir) Donald Petrie Simson, served in South Africa with the 8th Contingent NZMER (and later with King Edward's Horse) and in the First World War with the New Zealand Engineers. He was instrumental in establishing the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association.

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