Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Major B. Ponter, Southern Rhodesian Forces, late Suffolk Regiment

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Southern Rhodesia (CR160 T/Maj. Bernard Ponter) very fine (6) £260-300

Bernard Ponter, of Jewish heritage, was born in Cape Town in 1913 and came to Rhodesia in 1930. During the Second World War he served as a Lieutenant with the 7th Battalion Suffolk Regiment in East Africa, Middle East, North Africa and Italy, leaving with the rank of Major. Post war he was at times M.P. for Willowdale and for Highlands North; Salisbury City Councillor; Mayor of Salisbury, 1964-65; a Director of Air Rhodesia; Chairman of the Credit and Finance Corporation; Chairman and Managing Director of Twelve Gods Bakery and Confectionary Ltd.; Commissioner of Oaths.

With copied biographical details and a photocopied photograph of the recipient.