Initials?

[Ruskie]

I agree with "affect^ate brother", but I think the second abbreviation is just "K.B."  If you look at the (presumed) name initials, there's a very clear full stop after each letter, and as the second abbreviation has only two full stops, I'm inclined to think it's just two letters, with a flourish to start the B.

Arthur

Well spotted Arthur - I think you might be correct. 

[Mike in Cumbria]

Possibly! After writing the card, he has gone back and added a thin line around all his letters and I wonder if there is another full stop at the bottom of the "K", with the line enclosing them both the letter and the dot.

[Polldoll]

Agree with Mike ...I think there is a dot at the bottom of the K .... just really close... 

[craggagh]

Hello -

There is a full stop after the K - and there is also one after the C, which would rule out there only being two letters, I think.

craggagh.

[weste]

kcb I think but could the gml bit be emh

[arthurk]

Hmm, perhaps you're all right about there being 3 letters. Looking again, I can see that the bit at the end of the K does look as though it could have been added later, rather than flowing on as part of the same pen stroke.

So if he's not been found as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, can KCB stand for anything else?

Arthur

[gracie23]

I see it as V.M.L. for the first initials and I agree with K.B. as the second.
Deb