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Medal group of six:
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Officer - O.B.E. 1st Type Military issue, 1914 - 15 Star (LIEUT. T. V. BRENAN. ESSEX R.), 1914 - 1920 British War Medal, Victory Medal (Both: LIEUT. T. V. BRENAN), 1937 Coronation Medal, Persia - Coronation of Shah Rajah Pahlevi Medal 1928 (both unnamed as issued).
C.B.E. LG: 1/1/1948. The King has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire: - Commanders of the Civil Division:-
Terence Vincent Brenan, Esq., O.B.E. , lately His Majesty's Consul - General at Rabat.
O.B.E. LG: 29/9/1922. For valuable services rendered in connection with the Afghan War 1919, to be dated 5/4/1921:-
T/Lt. Terence Vincent Brenan, New Armies, attached 11th Battalion Essex Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant 11th Bn. Essex Regiment 6/3/1915, Lieutenant 15/4/1915, transferred to the General List as a Special Service Officer on 19/5/1916. Served B.E.F. 1915 - 1916 & East Persia 1916 - 1919. He is not entitled to an I.G.S. 1908 - 1935 Bar Afghanistan 1919 even though his OBE was awarded for this campaign. During WW2 he held the rank of Major serving in the Intelligence Corps.
His Who Was Who entry reads as follows:
Terence Vincent Brenan. CBE 1948, OBE 1921. Born 29th November 1887, son of the late Edward Vincent Brenan and Rose Peyton. Married 1935 Majorie Winifrede, daughter of the late Thomas Draper Harrison. No children. Educated at King William College, Isle of Man, also in Switzerland and Germany.
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. Address: Champlins, Ewhurst, Robertsbridge, East Sussex. Died 2nd November 1974.
Rare.
PLEASE NOTE: His CBE is not included in the group.
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