Highest known WWII medals awarded to a family member of Boyt of Wool, Dorset, England. This is one that movies could be made of!

MC: Military Cross, gazetted 28 Oct 1942
MBE: Member of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) gazetted 7 Nov 1946
SOE Force 136: https://tinyurl.com/58wy2p47
Boyt, Wool Branch: https://pbase.com/daveb/144195

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE): SOE Burma WWII Lt/Capt/Major Boyt, Force 136 (MBE Medal from King George VI) http://www.solarnavigator.net/british_empire_medal.htm

Additional Members of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)
. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37780/supplement/5465 7 Nov 1946

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Nov 7, 1946 by King George VI, Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
. https://honours.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/about/orders-and-medals/
. https://soeinburma.com/the-men-of-soe-burma/ (see diary)
. https://ia601301.us.archive.org/35/items/TheMostSecretListSOE/The_most_secret_list_SOE.pdf (Most Secret SOE WWII) Access conditions: Closed Until 2003
Also awarded the Military Cross (MC) Medal in 1942: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Cross

Thousand mile retreat in Burma.
Here’s the diary report of Captain Arthur Thompson, one of the Oriental Mission officers in charge of fighting the rearguard action on the road from Toungoo. It starts on 23 March, the day after he and his company of Karens from 1st Battalion the Burma Rifles arrived at Toungoo and encamped on the aerodrome: March 23rd Received orders to proceed with all Karens of the Battalion (totalling 135) to MAWCHI to report to Capt. BOYT.
. https://soeinburma.com/2022/04/30/remembering-the-retreat-the-oriental-mission-in-burma-80yrs-on/

. https://defenceindepth.co/2016/06/29/burma-1942-soes-role-in-defeat-into-victory/
Thompson, with a company of Karen Burifs, and Boyt with his recently recruited Karen ‘levies’, were ordered to cover General Bruce-Scott’s 1 Burma Division which was retreating along the eastern bank of the Sittang River via Toungoo and Meiktila towards Mandalay. Between 2 and 5 April, Boyt and Thompson fought a fierce delaying battle along the Mawchi Road which delayed a brigade of the Japanese 56 Division for an estimated eight days.

Noel Ernest Boyt born, 26th December 1901. Worked as a Forest Manager for Steel Brothers, 1941 Burma. Appointed 2nd. Lt, ABRO (ABRO 422), 26th February 1942. Served with the 13th Indian Infantry Brigade, February/March 1942?. Undertook demolitions on the Mawchi Road, protected by a party of 150 Karens and Karen Levies under the command of Captain A.L.B. Thompson, late March 1942. As Lieutenant (temporary Captain), "Whilst serving with the Burma Frontier Force", awarded the Military Cross, gazetted, 28th October 1942, for which the citation reads:

Unit: Army in Burma Reserve of Officers
Date of Recommendation: 16th June 1942
Action for which recommended :- This officer when handed over (by 13th Indian Infantry Brigade) the demolitions on the Mawchi Road, carried out the difficult task successfully in spite of a sustained offensive up the road by a Japanese force vastly superior in arms and numbers to the defenders.

Capt. Boyt was frequently under mortar and small arms fire. He had as transport only a lorry with 3 tyres which he drove by day and night along this very difficult road often in full view of the enemy. Covered by a small force of 150 Karens armed with rifles and 50 rounds a piece Capt-Boyt [sic] stuck to his duty over nearly 100 miles of road under almost constant enemy pressure.

Two thirds of the enemy force very ably handled by Capt. Thompson of the Burma Rifles, became casualties. Had it not been for Capt. Boyt’s successful efforts, the Mawchi Loikaw debacle would have been much more sudden, and the consequences to the Chinese and British Armies in Burma of the 6th Army’s collapse much more serious.

Recommended by: [unreadable signature] M.G.G.S., H.Q. Army in Burma
Signed By: H.R. Alexander, General

Served with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) Oriental Mission (Burma) as Captain, 1942. Served with Force 136, achieving rank of temporary Major, 1944-45. Liaison Officer to 10th U.S.A.A.F, later IV Corps, 1944-45?. As temporary Major, ABRO, awarded the M.B.E., gazetted, 7th November 1946 ("Burma Invaded 1942", C.M. Enriquez; Anglo-Burmese Library; Special Forces - Roll of Honour; London Gazette; WO 373/30/182; National Archives file HS 9/196/7).

. http://www.rothwell.force9.co.uk/burmaweb/FF3.htm#_edn44