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Auction: 20003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 512

The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel G. E. C. Ash, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, late Federated Malay States Volunteer Force and Northumberland Fusiliers

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Korea 1950-53; U.N. Korea 1950-54; Coronation 1953, mounted as worn, good very fine (8)

George Ernest Claudius Ash was born on 8 October 1913 and was educated at Wellington School, Somerset. Prior to the Second World War, Ash had been a Schoolmaster in Singapore and latterly a Motor Engineer and then Accountant with Borneo Motors of Seremban. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force (The Straits Times 5 November, 1939, refers), Ash enlisted in the British Army in May 1940, and was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on 30 November 1940. He served on attachment with the Northumberland Fusiliers at home from December 1941-44, before seeing action in Burma. He served in Malaya in 1946 when he served on attachment in command of 1st Battalion, Malay Regiment. In 1950 he joined the 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, serving in Malaya and Korea, where he is recorded as having been commanding Headquarters Company. His final posting was to the War Office Selection Board before retiring in 1961.

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