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Summary
Medal, order
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Medal, order
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| Object type | Classification: 276 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English:
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire - Commander (Mil) - CBE - neck badge GV1 Awarded to Brigadier Clive Lochiel Pleasants, CBE DSO MC metal and enamel cross shaped medal, 64mm wide, ring suspension, with ribbon obverse- pale blue enamelled cross with crimson ring with motto FOR GOD AND COUNTRY with George V and Queen Mary reverse- Royal Cypher ribbon- grosgrain ribbon, 44mm wide, crimson with white striped edges and white stripe down centre
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| Date | Unknown date ; 17 Jul 2001; 15 Aug 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions |
height: 110mm
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2001.25.790
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| Place of creation | United Kingdom; New Zealand; Fiji | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history | Display: 5B 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2001.25.790 Brent Mackrell Collection | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire - Commander (Mil) - CBE - neck badge GV1 Brigadier Clive Lochiel Pleasants, CBE DSO MC Summary Military Service- Brigadier Clive Lochiel Pleasants, CBE DSO MC Service- 2NZEF, Fiji Military Force WW2- Greece, Crete, Africa, Italy post-WW2- New Zealand Regular Army; Commanding Officer Fiji Military Force to Malaya. Obituary- NZ Herald- 30-3-1988 "War Hero Started out as Teacher Clive Lochiel Pleasants, a schoolteacher who became a distinguished soldier, died yesterday in Auckland. Brigadier Pleasants, aged 77, will be honoured in a funeral ceremony with full military honours tomorrow at the Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral in Parnell and then at Purewa Crematorium. During the Second World War he commanded infantry and armoured units of battalion, division and brigade strength in Greece, Crete, Egypt and Italy. He earned the Military Cross while a company commander in the 19th battalion in Crete in 1941, having to lead soldiers out of the region to Egypt after his commanding officer and second-in-command were temporarily lost in the battle. Commission He won the DSO the following year while in command of the 18th battalion at Orsogna, Italy, where he was wounded twice. On his return to New Zealand at the end of the war he returned to teaching in Wanganui, but resumed Army life in 1947 when he took up a permanent commission. Brigadier Pleasants was appointed commandant of Waiouru Military camp in the late 1940s, then commander of the Fiji military forces. He was made a CBE in 1952 during his term in the islands. In 1953 he became commander of the northern military district. He went to London in 1964 as Army liaison officer, retiring at the end of the following year." | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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