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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 522

Six: Lieutenant H. M. Roberts, Indian Army

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., Territorial (Lt. H. M. Roberts. Indian. Army.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya (Lt. H. M. Roberts. Gen. List.), the first five mounted as worn in that order, the last loose, sold together with a cap badge and lanyard, good very fine (6)

Efficiency Medal London Gazette 21 January 1949.

A Private Horace Roberts served with the 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment in Burma and is registered with the Burma Star Association. An officer by the name of Horace Maurice Roberts was commissioned Lieutenant and Quartermaster on 26 February 1946. He is listed as dropping the appointment of Quartermaster in 1949 serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps (Administrative and Technical) leaving him with the rank of Lieutenant. It is not clear whether this is the same man or whether he served with the Indian Army at some stage.

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£110