CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS x211 Pair: Lieutenant A. Paterson, 12th Manitoba Dragoons, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, died 12 February 1943
CANADIAN VOLUNTEER SERVICE MEDAL; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; together with the recipient’s CANADIAN MEMORIAL CROSS,
G.VI.R. (Lieut. A. Paterson) good very fine (3)
£100-140
Archibald Paterson served during the Second World War with the 12th Manitoba Dragoons, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, and died on 12 February 1943. He is buried in St. Vital Cemetery, Manitoba.
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Three: Detective Station Sergeant Ernest, British South Africa Police
WARMEDAL 1939-45; COLONIAL POLICEMEDAL, for Meritorious Service, E.II.R., 2nd issue (10126 African Det. Stn. Sgt. Ernest, B.S.A. Police); COLONIAL POLICE L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, with Second Award Clasp (10126 African Det. Cl. 2. Sgt. Ernest, B.S.A. Police) mounted for wear, contact marks, nearly very fine (3)
£140-180
Mukoreko Ernest served in the British South Africa Police, May 1937- November 1965. He was Awarded the Colonial Police Medal for Meritorious Service, 1 January 1960; the Colonial Police L.S. & G.C, 16 December 1955, and the Second Award Bar, 30 November 1962.
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Three: Sergeant-Major M. F. Gwekwerere, British South African Police
WARMEDAL 1939-45; COLONIAL POLICE L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (11273 African Sgt. Muzuwa F. Gwekwerere, B.S.A.); Rhodesia, GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL (11273 Stn/Sgt. Gwekwerere) edge bruising to second, nearly very fine (3)
£70-90
Muzuwa F. Gwekwerere was born at Marandellas and educated at St. Paul’s Mission, Musami. He attested for the British South African Police on 1 March 1944, having previously served as a native constable with the Native Department, and saw service at Umtali, Cashel, Karoi, Victoria Falls, Darwendale, Umvukwes, Concession, and Kariba. He was awarded the Colonial Police Long Service Medal on 27 July 1962, and his Rhodesian General Service Medal on 14 January 1971. He retired on 3 February 1976.
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Three: Private R. L. White, Gloucestershire Regiment, late Devonshire Regiment, taken Prisoner of War at the Battle of Imjin River, 26 April 1951
GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya,
G.VI.R. (22301234 Pte. R. L. White. Devon.) unit officially corrected; KOREA 1950-53, 1st issue (22301234 Pte. R. L. White. Glosters.); U.N. KOREA 1950-54, unnamed as issued, extremely fine (3) £600-800
Provenance: Buckland Dix & Wood, July 1995.
Reginald Lewis White was born in Portland, Dorset, on 26 December 1928, and attested for the Devonshire Regiment in November 1949. He married Miss Mary Wood at Weymouth on 15 April 1950, and, according to the Dorset Daily Echo was despatched to Malaya for service with the 1st Battalion the very same day! He served with a Signals Platoon in Malaya until November 1950, when the Battalion returned to England. However, as he had more than 11 months’ National Service left to complete, he was one of 270 men drafted into the Wiltshire Regiment to bring it up to strength in Hong Kong. Indeed it is well documented in the Regimental Journal of the 1st Devons that the ranks of the Signals Platoon 1st Wiltshires were well represented by ex-Devons. While serving with the Wiltshires in Hong Kong, White volunteered for service in Korea, as part of a draft of 90 men from the Wiltshire Regiment, and arrived in Japan on 14 April 1951. The Dorset Daily Echo reports that ‘Chalky’ White underwent a period of battle training before joining the Gloucestershire Regiment, and it is probable therefore that he arrived with the second draft. He was taken Prisoner of War at the Battle of Imjin River on 26 April 1951, whilst serving with a Support Company; by the end of the Imjin battle 21 officers and 501 men of the Glosters had been captured by the Chinese. He was eventually released form Camp One on 20 August 1953 along with 90 other Prisoners of War, at least 55 of whom were Glosters, and arrived back at Portsmouth on the morning of 17 October 1953, just in time to attend his sister’s wedding in Weymouth later that day! He died in Weymouth on 29 February 2012.
Sold together with a copy photograph, taken from Semper Fidelis, showing the recipient wearing a Wiltshire Regiment cap badge.
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