Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private L. A. T. Rimell, killed in action during the fall of Hong Kong, 24 December 1941

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. G. Rimell, 3 Tudor Court, South Wembley, Middx’, extremely fine (4) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Second World War Casualties.

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Leonard Albert T. Rimell served with the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment during the Second World War, and was killed in action on Christmas Eve 1941, aged 21, during the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, which led to the fall of the Colony the following day. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Sai Wan Memorial, Hong Kong.