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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 95

Eight: Lieutenant-Colonel W.L. Beck, Royal Signals, Late Royal Air Force
British War and Victory Medals (2/Lieut. W.L. Beck. R.A.F.), VM neatly erased; 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., reverse dated ´1944´, with integral top ´Territorial´ riband bar, generally good very fine or better, last in Royal Mint case of issue, together with the recipient´s related miniature awards (8)

T.D. London Gazette 17.8.1944 Maj. (T/Lt.-Col) W.L. Beck (35580), Royal Corps of Signals.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Llewellyn Beck, born Wolverhampton, April 1899; enlisted in the Royal Air Force, 6.6.1918; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 7.10.1918, and served during the Great War with No.110 Squadron in France from 11.10.1918; transferred to the unemployed list, 25.10.1919; appointed to 54th (East Anglian) Divisional Signals, Territorial Army, 31.7.1926; promoted Lieutenant, 31.7.1929; Captain, 1.3.1932; Major, 13.5.1939; served during the Second War and advanced Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, 1.3.1943; retired, October 1945.

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