Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Lieutenant-Colonel D. J. Fazackerley, Royal Field Artillery

British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver, hallmarks for London 1913, lacks top bar; Cadet Forces Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Lt-Col., T.D.), last with official correction to name, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (7) £110-130

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Brigadier Brian Parritt, C.B.E..

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D. J. Fazackerley was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery Special Reserve on 23 June 1917. He attained the rank of Acting Lieutenant-Colonel on 24 July 1945. He later served in the Lancashire (West) Army Cadet Force. His group of medals spans a remarkable 40 years of active and voluntary service; from a Lieutenant in 1917 to a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army Cadet Force in 1949.