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Confidential

Home Office
Whitehall s.w.1
13th January 1920

Order of the British Empire

Sir,

I am directed by the Home Secretary, on behalf of the Prime
Minister, to inform you that, in view of the service you have rendered in
work connected with the War, it is proposed to submit your name to the
King for appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire
(Civil Division).

The Home Secretary desires me to ask you to be so good as to fill
up the enclosed form and return it to me in the accompanying
addressed envelope at your earliest convenience.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

G.G.Whishand,

Acting Secretary.

Order of the British Empire

The Reverend G. Findlay Andrew.

He filled in the appropriate form and here is the letter which GFA received in June with his
orders to appear on July 20 at Buckingham Palace to get his O.B.E.
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