Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Six: Captain D. S. White, African Colonial Forces
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue, Kenya (Lt. (Q.M.) D. S. White) edge prepared prior to naming, in named card box of issue, extremely fine

Three: Junior Commander V. White, Auxiliary Territorial Service
Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs. V. White, Public Works Dept., Jinja, Uganda’; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (Sub V. Wood ATS) first letter of surname officially corrected, in named card box of issue with Record Office enclosure, extremely fine (9) £120-160

David Stanley White received a Regular Army Emergency Commission as Lieutenant and Quartermaster in the African Colonial Forces on 1 October 1942, and was promoted to War substantive Captain on 1 October 1945. He married Miss Vera Wood in the latter half of 1945.

Vera White, née Wood, was appointed Company Assistant in the Auxiliary Territorial Service on 21 December 1938. Commissioned Second Subaltern on 30 May 1941, she was promoted to Subaltern on 30 May 1941, and Junior Commander on 25 August 1942. She married Captain David White in the latter half of 1945, and was placed on the Retired List as an honorary Junior Commander in the first quarter of 1946. She qualified for the Efficiency Medal on 21 March 1945, but the award did not appear in the London Gazette until 27 February 1979, and she finally received her medal in November of that year.

Sold together with Captain D. S. White’s related miniature awards, the EM a G.VI.R. Territorial version.