Five: Major J. R. Mottershaw, Postal Section, Royal Engineers, who was Mentioned in Despatches for services in the Middle East

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Army Emergency Reserve Decoration, E.II.R., reverse officially dated 1959, with integral top riband bar, mounted as worn, with OHMS transmission box fro the Second War awards, addressed to ‘J. R. Mottershaw, Esq., 41 Greenhill Drive, Bramley, Leeds’; and the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted, lacquered, extremely fine (5) £120-£160

M.I.D. London Gazette 24 June 1943.

John Roland Mottershaw was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Postal Section, Royal Engineers, on 6 April 1940, and was advanced Captain on 8 January 1946, and Major on 1 September 1952. He was awarded the Army Emergency Reserve Decoration in 1959 (London Gazette 11 September 1959), and was awarded a second Award Bar in 1963 (London Gazette 19 March 1963). He retired, having reached the age limit, on 1 December 1965, retaining the rank of Major.

Sold with a Royal Engineers cap badge and a pair of Royal Engineers cuff-links.