Auction Catalogue

4 December 2002

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1103

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4 December 2002

Hammer Price:
£550

Seven: Colonel J. T. Gough, Royal Tank Regiment

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Lieut., R. Tank C.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence & War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Major, 6/R. Tks.); Coronation 1953, mounted as worn, very fine and better (7) £300-350

John Terrence Gough was born on 5 August 1905, and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Rotal Tank Corps on 29 January 1925; Lieutenant, 29 January 1927; Captain, Royal Tank Regiment, 19 April 1936; Acting Major, 27 July 1940; Major, 29 January 1942; Local Lieutenant-Colonel, October to December 1943, specially employed with British Military Mission to Egypt; Acting Lieutenant-Colonel, 5 May 1945; Colonel, 29 October 1949. Colonel Gough retired in August 1953.