Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Major A. Mulligan, Royal Tank Regiment, and a member of the British Army Association Football Team

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (Major A. Mulligan, R. Tks.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., Regular Army (Lieut. A. Mulligan. R.A.C.) together with the recipient’s G.VI.R. miniature awards; five association football prize medals, including Army Football Association Cup Winners Medal, 9 ct. gold; silver identity bracelet; riband bars; and various buttons, badges, and cloth insignia, good very fine (7) £500-600

Arthur Mulligan was born in Morpeth, Northumberland on 13 December 1908, and attested for the Royal Tank Corps at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 3 October 1928. He rose steadily through the ranks, being promoted Corporal in December 1932; Sergeant in October 1937; and Warrant Officer Class II on 2 July 1939. He was also a keen footballer, and won the Army Football Association Cup with the 4th Battalion Royal Tank Corps in 1935, beating the 2nd Battalion the Royal Ulster Rifles in the final tie at Aldershot, and also played for the Army XI in the International Triangular Tournament against the French and Belgian Army XI’s in 1938. Appointed to an emergency Commission on 14 January 1941, he served with the Royal Tank Regiment (as the Royal Tank Corps had been renamed in 1939) during the Second World War as part of the Royal Armoured Corps in North Africa and Italy, and was promoted Captain, 1 November 1947, and Major, 25 August 1954, before seeing further post-War service in Kenya. He relinquished his commission on 10 August 1960, having previously spent two years on secondment at the Military Corrective Training Centre at Colchester.

Sold together with the recipient’s Regular Army Certificate of Service Book; Soldier’s Service Book; Officer’s Record of Service Book; Warrant appointing the recipient a Warrant Officer; two Certificates of Education; various Association Football programmes and dinner menus; the recipient’s Army Football Association blazer badge; letters; and a large quantity of photographs.