Orders, Decorations and Medals

Eight: Corporal G. Goring, The Royals

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (404145 Tpr., The Royals);1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (404145 Cpl., Royals) good very fine and better (8) £250-300

‘The Royals’ (1st Dragoons) amalgamated in 1969 with ‘The Blues’ (The Royal Horse Guards) to form ‘The Blues and Royals’.

During the Second World War the regiment gained battle honours for: ‘Syria 1941’, ‘Msus’, ‘Gazala’, ‘Knightsbridge’, Defence of Alamein Line’, ‘El Alamein’, ‘El Agheila’, ‘Advance on Tripoli’, ‘North Africa 1941-43’, ‘Sicily 1943’, ‘Italy 1943’, ‘Nederrijn’, ‘Veghel’, ‘Rhine’ and ‘North-West Europe 1944-45’.