Auction Catalogue

22 July 2016

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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№ 286

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22 July 2016

Hammer Price:
£320

Six: Hon. Colonel T. J. F. Fuller, Royal Signals

India General Service 1939-39, 2 clasps, North West Frontier 1939-37, North West Frontier 1937-39 (Lieut. T. J. F. Fuller, R. Signals); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Voluntary Medical Services Long Service, with 2 Bars (Lt. Col. Tuffley J. F. Fuller), mounted as worn, generally good very fine (6) £260-280

Tuffley John Foster Fuller was born on 9 June 1912, the son of a Gunner Officer in the Indian Army. Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. he was commissioned into the Royal Signals in 1932 and continued to serve with that Corps until 1953, in which year he was placed on the Retired List in the rank of Honorary Colonel; his award of the India General Service 1936-39 & 2 clasp is confirmed in respective Army Lists.

‘TJF’ - as he was popularly known - built up a fine collection of Orders, Decorations and Medals, being one of a long line of old ‘India Hands’ to start collecting while serving there in the 1930 and 40s. Following his death at Bedford in 1980, the collection was sold in a ‘named auction’ by Glendining & Co. on 28 October 1981; a copy of the relevant catalogue is included.