Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. F. Lakey, 10th Battalion, Parachute Regiment (A.A.C.), who was killed in action at Arnhem in September 1944

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, the first privately inscribed, ‘14272199 Pte. W. F. Lakey, 10 Para.’, together with the recipient’s illuminated Buckingham Palace memorial scroll in the name of ‘Private W. F. Lakey, Army Air Corps’, cleaned, good very fine or better (3) £150-200

William Frank Lakey, the son of Jessie Alice Lakey of Upper Holloway, London, was killed in action at Arnhem on 19 September 1944, aged 23 years, while serving in the 10th Battalion, Parachute Regiment (A.A.C.). He is buried in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery.