Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Guardsman W. Heslop, Grenadier Guards

Defence Medal; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (2628840 Gdsm., Gren. Gds), mounted as worn, heavy contact marks, good fine and better

Three: attributed to Chaplain to the Forces, The Rev. W. Parsons

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed as issued; together with a mounted set of three miniature dress medals, very fine (8) £30-50

William Heslop was born in 1928 and served in the Home Guard, 13 July 1943-31 December 1944. He enlisted into the Grenadier Guards at Carlisle on 5 June 1946 and was transferred to the Army Reserve on 31 July 1952. He served in Malaya, 9 September 1948-17 August 1949 and also in North Africa during 1951. He was employed as an M.T. Driver/Instructor. Sold with six photographs and copied Certificate of Service and Certificate of Transfer to the Army Reserve.

The medals attributed to The Rev. Wilfred Herbert Parsons (1909-95), with newspaper cutting providing biographical details - was made a prisoner-of-war at Dunkirk. Sold with a cap badge, two collar badges and riband bar. An archive of material relating to his time as a prisoner of war is held at the Imperial War Museum.