Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Six: Captain W. Casselton, Suffolk Regiment

India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (5931658 Sjt., Suff. R.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (5931658 C. Sjt., Suffolk) mounted as worn, some contact marks, very fine and better (6) £140-180

Based on his service number Casselton enlisted into the Cambridgeshire Regiment in July 1925 and then at some point transferred to the Suffolk Regiment. As a Serjeant in the 2nd Battalion he served on the N.W. Frontier of India prior to the war. During the war he served as a C.S.M. on P.O.W. duties at Bangalore, before transferring to the I.A.O.C. in 1944 as an R.S.M. He was commissioned in 1944 and later retired as a Captain. Awarded the L.S. & G.C. by A.O. 55 of 1947.

With W.W.2 medal forwarding slip, a letter dating from 1954 to Captain Casselton re his L.S. & G.C. Medal - his address being given as ‘Rawalpindi, 35 Money Bank, Wisbech, Cambs.’; an Armistice Day prayer/hymn; together with I.G.S. roll extract and service notes.