Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Colour Sergeant A. Haley, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (4270546 Fsr. A. Haley. R. North’d. Fus.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53 (4270546 C/Sgt. A. Haley. R.N.F.); U.N. Korea, mounted as worn, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (8) £360-400

The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers served in Palestine prior to the outbreak of war in 1939. In 1940 they were attached to the 6th Australian Division in Cyrenaica, and later in 1941 with the 9th Australian Division in Tobruk. The R.N.F. then fought in the battle of Alamein and afterwards in North West West Europe, 1944-45. In Korea the 1st Battalion fought in the battle of Imjin River and later at Hill 317 in Operation Commando.