Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Regimental Sergeant Major J.R. Metcalf, Royal Warwickshire Regiment

1939-45 STAR; BURMA STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS; U.N. KOREA; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (4800071 W.O. Cl. 2., R. Warwick); REGULAR ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue (W.O. Cl. 2., R. Lincolns) very fine (7)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Mike Minton.

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Served during W.W.2 with the Lincolns and joined the Warwicks in January 1950. He was R.S.M. and performed the ceremony of hauling down the Regimental Flag at Budbrooke Barracks in 1960, where it had flown for more than 80 years. Sold with some research and photographs.