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Auction: 25111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 595

Five: Captain H. Cartwright, Staffordshire Yeomanry

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army, Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., Territorial, dated 1945, mounted as worn, good very fine (5)

Efficiency Decoration London Gazette 13 December 1945.

Himley Cartwright was discharged from the Staffordshire Yeomanry on 2 October 1945 and received his campaign medals in 1949; sold together with the following archive:

i)
A set of corresponding miniature awards.

ii)
Slip for the Second World War Medals.

iii)
Letter dated 29 December 1945 to him at Park Spring, Knebworth, Hertfordshire confirming the approval of the award of the Efficiency Decoration.

iv)
Dog Tags.

v)
A quantity of miscellaneous badges.

vi)
Case for the Efficiency Decoration.

See Lot 649 for the medals to his father.

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Sold for
£210

Starting price
£80