Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Sierra Leone, the reverse inscribed ‘Capt. L. P. John, 1st Batt. R.W.A.F.F.’, good very fine, rare £260-£300

Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2009.

Leyshorn Parry John, European Reserve Force, Sierra Leone, was appointed to be a Lieutenant on the Miscellaneous List, Regular Army Reserve of Officers with seniority 13 May 1936 (London Gazette 16 February 1937). Having attained the age limit, he relinquished his commission on the R.A.R.O. on 12 August 1947.

In his booklet ‘The Efficiency Decoration’, J. M. A. Tamplin lists only 4 Efficiency Decorations (Sierra Leone) gazetted between the years 1938-52. A fifth (that to ‘John’) is listed as being known without gazette details.