Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Temporary Captain S. R. McGuiness, Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps, who was mentioned in despatches for services in Malaya

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; New Zealand War Medal; General Service 1918-62, E.II.R., 1 clasp, Malaya, with M.I.D. oak leaf (3219 T./Capt., RNZAC) good very fine or better (7) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Richard Schweder Collection of Medals for Campaigns in Malaysia.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 30 October 1953.

Stuart Robert McGuiness was born in New Zealand in October 1916. He served during World War II in the ranks of the 2nd Battalion, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, in Greece, crete, Libya and Italy. He was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in June 1945, but resigned his commission in December 1948. He subsequently joined the Regular Force as a Warrant Officer II in the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps, being seconded to the 1st Fiji Infantry Regiment in Malaya as R.Q.M.S. from December 1951 to July 1954. On return to New Zealand he was appointed R.S.M., 3rd Armoured Regiment, before retiring in Septemper 1955 with the rank of Temporary Captain.