Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Sergeant A. F. Warner, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), who was killed in action in the retreat from Burma in March 1942

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (3244653 Rfmn., Cameronians), second initial ‘E.’; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, the first with officially corrected surname, generally good very fine (4) £180-220

Arthur Frederick Warner was killed in action during the retreat from Burma on 6 March 1942, while serving in the 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). On this date, the Battalion was subjected to artillery, mortar and sniper fire during its withdrawal from Pegu, and, as related in the regimental history, one Cameronian Light Aid Detachment, which went to the aid of a Bofors gun team, was attacked and wiped out - ‘the chivalrous enemy cut the heads off the dead, putting them on poles by the roadside’ (Brigadier C. N. Barclay’s History of the Cameronians refers). The son of Florence Warner of Attleborough, Norfolk, Arthur was 29 years of age, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial.