Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private R. Wilson, South African Infantry, later Southern Rhodesia Forces

British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Pte., 2nd S.A.I.); Southern Rhodesia Medal for War Service 1939-45, good very fine and better and rare (3) £250-300

Radcliffe Currie Wilson settled in Rhodesia after the Great War and died at Salisbury in April 1959, aged 57 years.

Sold with a portrait photograph, a copy of his marriage certificate, his wife’s ‘Loyal Service’ certificate for the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1953-63, signed by Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, and an original ‘In Loving Memory’ card.

Also see Lot 906 for the campaign awards of his Father-in-Law.