Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Major A. J. Petitt, 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales) Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps, late Royal Tank Regiment

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Army L.S.& G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (97872450 Sjt., R. Tank R.), mounted court style for wear, nearly extremely fine (7) £200-300

Arthur James Petitt was born in 1904. After serving in the Royal Tank Corps, Serjeant Petitt was granted the rank of Lieutenant in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps, to date from 1 March 1941 (London Gazette 15 April 1941). Promoted Temporary Captain in June 1942, he was an Instructor at the Fighting Vehicles School, India. By the Autumn of 1943 he had attained the rank of (Temporary ?) Major, serving for a time as 2 i/c of the 26th Hussars. In February 1944 he is recorded in the 3rd Carabiniers War Diary as one of a number of officers undertaking a recce of the Kabaw Valley north of Tamu. Captain Petitt, son of Walter and Ellen Petitt and husband of Elsie Petitt of Bognor Regis, Sussex, died of heart failure and complications on 16 June 1947, aged 43 years. He was buried in Aldershot Military Cemetery.

Sold with Royal Tank Regiment prize medal inscribed, ‘Cpl. A. J. Petitt, Winners A/C Crew Comp. 12th A.C. Co. 1927’, 32mm., silver, in case of issue; British Army of the Rhine prize medal, inscribed, ‘Inter Unit Team Championship, 1929, ‘B’ Group Runners Up’, 38mm., bronze, in case of issue and a copy of The Soldiers Bible, inscribed to ‘No.7872450 Pettit (sic) A.J.’ bearing the stamp mark of No.12 Armoured Car Company, Tank Corps, May 29, 1923’. Also with damaged card box of issue for the Army L.S. & G.C.; copy of Death Certificate, extracts from the War Diaries and other copied research.