Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lance-Corporal T. Lumley, Royal Corps of Signals, who died of wounds at Kohima, 15 May 1944

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘T. Lumley, Montrose Crescent, Carr Hill, Gateshead, Co. Durham’, address label on box slightly torn, nearly extremely fine (4) £80-120

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

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Thomas Lumley served during the Second World War as a Lance-Corporal with the Royal Corps of Signals, and on attachment with 33 Indian Corps of Signals. He died of wounds received during the Battle of Kohima on 15 May 1944.

Lumley was aged 23 at the time of his death. He is buried in Kohima War Cemetery, India. His medals were sent to his father Thomas Lumley.