Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Signalman E. E. Heighton, Royal Corps of Signals - captured at Singapore - a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (2315947 Sigmn., R. Sigs.) official correction to surname; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (2315947 Sgln., R. Signals); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed, good very fine (5) £180-220

Ernest Edmund Heighton was born on 30 October 1906, the son of Thomas Albert and Eliza Jane Heighton, of Ramsgate, Kent. Serving with the 11th Indian Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, he was taken captive by the Japanese at Singapore. With copied Japanese P.O.W. record card and some other research.