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Auction: 25112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 604

An unusual campaign group of three awarded to Sergeant E. G. Sigston, Royal Army Education Corps, who became Head of Marine Biology at King George VI School, Honiara, Solomon Islands

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya (22829852 Sgt. E. G. Sigston. R.A.E.C.); U.N. Korea 1950-54; Solomon Islands Independence Medal, sold together with a corresponding miniature set for the first two, heavy edge bruise to first overall very fine and a scarce combination (3)

Doubtless a scarce combination and likely unique to the unit.

Eric George Sigston was born at Scarborough, Yorkshire in October 1932 and served as a Sergeant in the Royal Army Education Corps in Malaya as well as spending time in Japan during the Korean War. Leaving the Army, he took work as a teacher and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant with the Army Cadet Force, with the Norfolk Branch on 21 March 1960.

Advanced Lieutenant on 11 April 1963 he remained in the role until, getting work in the Solomon Islands, he resigned his commission on 21 February 1966. Sigston appears on the staff list for the Queen Victoria School, in 1970 and 1972. A notice of his death appeared in the Old Scarborian's Association magazine in 2002, several members posted their memories including John Larbalestier who stated:

'Eric was in the Army (Education Corps?) and I think did a spell of teaching in Yarmouth (producing some Shakespeare plays) before going out to Fiji where he settled very happily in a school there. We saw him on a couple of his trips back to Scarborough in the sixties before learning of his death in Fiji which would be in the late sixties [SIC]. We have never known the cause and did not have a family address.'

Sigston in fact died on 17 May 1985 with probate to the Solomon Islands; sold together with copied research.

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Sold for
£170

Starting price
£110