Three: Private L. A. Burton, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, who was twice wounded during the Great War, and later served with the British South Africa Police
British War and Victory Medals (39158 Pte. L. A. Burton. K.O.Y.L.I.); War Medal 1939-45; together with the recipient’s riband bar, good very fine

1939-45 Star (3); Atlantic Star (2); Africa Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star (2); Defence Medal (3); War Medal 1939-45 (3); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; together with an erased Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp Minesweeping 1945-51, generally good very fine (21) £100-£140

Laurence Albert Brown attested for the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1917 and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front, being wounded at Passchendaele, and then gassed at Minchy-le-Prieux. Following the end of the War he attested as a trooper in the British South Africa Police on 18 June 1920, and retired twenty years later with the rank of inspector. He died in Gwelo on 12 July 1966.

Sold with a copy of the recipient’s obituary as published in Outpost, Septemebr 1966, containing a photograph of the recipient.