Auction Catalogue

18 & 19 September 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1580

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19 September 2014

Hammer Price:
£110

Pair: Private J. G. Macintyre, Kenya Regiment, late Royal Signals

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14117208 Cpl., R. Sigs.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (KR-4328 Pte, Kenya Regt) extremely fine (2) £120-160

James Gardener Macintyre was born c.1927, and was employed as a Pharmacist in Kenya, where he lived with his wife, Sonja Maria Macintyre. They are recorded as having made a return voyage to the U.K. aboard the S.S. Rhodesia Castle. Disembarking in London on 13 August 1954, their intended place of residence was given as 77 Ewing Street, Rutherglen, Glasgow, Scotland.

Both medals with named card boxes of issue; that for Kenya also with forwarding slip and damaged registered envelope, both bearing the address, ‘Schoolhouse, Braidwood, Carluke, Scotland’.