Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private R. D. Payne, York & Lancaster Regiment

1939-45 Star, the reverse privately inscribed, ‘4756713 Pte. R. D. Payne, Y. & L.R.’; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf, together with original War Office forwarding letter for the M.I.D. emblem, in the name of ‘4756713 Pte. R. D. Payne, Y. & L.R.’, dated ‘5 April 1945’ and Army Council campaign medal forwarding slip, extremely fine (4) £40-60

Most likely a member of the 2nd Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment, which participated in Orde Wingate’s second Chindit offensive, “Operation Thursday”, in early 1944.