Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: attributed to Temporary Major H. W. Holman, Lancashire Fusiliers, late City of London Regiment

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, these three privately engraved ‘T./Maj. H. W. Holman’; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., Territorial, with Bar, the reverses of the Decoration and Bar officially dated ‘1950’, mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards for the 1939-45 War.

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Holman was appointed a Lieutenant in the 6th City of London Regiment in October 1927 and, having exchanged to the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers in the interim, was recalled in May 1939, when appointed a Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Having then seen action in France with the B.E.F., he was appointed a G.S.O. 3 in the rank of Captain in the East Lancashire Area.