Family Group:

Four: Attributed to S. M. Sher, Rhodesia Regiment
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, unnamed as issued, very fine

Pair: S. M. Sher, Rhodesian Police
Rhodesia, General Service Medal (35984 S/R S.M. Sher); Zimbabwe, Independence Medal 1980 (35526) slight edge bruise to RGSM, otherwise very fine (6) £60-£80

Samuel Morris Sher, Senior, a Jewish émigré motor car dealer from Bulawayo, was born in Shavel, Lithuania. He settled in Southern Rhodesia and attested into the Rhodesia Regiment for service during the Second War, with Service No. X3207. He died in Bulawayo, aged 60, on 5 May 1953.

Samuel Morris Sher, Junior, the son of the above, served as a Special Reservist in the Rhodesian Police, with Service No. 35984. He appears to have died in Cape Town, South Africa, on 7 October 2008.

Sold with copied Death Notice, copied research and a tie pin with a small 9ct gold face, engraved ‘Sammy’.