Auction Catalogue

26 March 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 186

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26 March 2009

Hammer Price:
£270

Efficiency Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue, Kenya (Maj. N. de la H. Moores) officially renamed, good very fine £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Moores was granted a Regular Army Emergency Commission as a 2nd Lieutenant on the General List, African Colonial Forces Section, on 5 October 1940. He was promoted a War Substantive Lieutenant in August 1941 and became a Temporary Captain in August 1942. Moores later became a War Substantive Captain and Temporary Major in May 1946. Awarded the Efficiency Medal (Kenya) (The Official Gazette of Kenya, 26 July 1955). With copied gazette extract.