Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family Group:

Six: Staff Sergeant C. W. Ashby, Umtali Mounted Rifles
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal; Africa Service Medal; Good Service Medal, in silver, edge numbered ‘1673; Good Service Medal, in bronze, edge numbered ‘3901’;

Five: Corporal A. E. Ashby, Umtali Mounted Rifles
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal; Africa Service Medal; Good Service Medal, in silver, edge numbered ‘532’, generally good very fine or better (11) £150-180

Sold with copied service papers which confirm that both Charles William and Arthur Ernest Ashby were taken prisoner of war whilst serving in Africa (Tobruk) on 20 June 1942.