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4 & 5 March 2020

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Lot

№ 523

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4 March 2020

Hammer Price:
£650

Seven: Major B. M. Kilner, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, who was Mentioned in Despatches for services in North West Europe during the Second War

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (Capt. B. M. Kilner. T.D. D.W.R.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated ‘1950’, with integral top riband bar, mounted as worn, good very fine or better (7) £500-£700

M.I.D. London Gazette 4 April 1946
‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Northwest Europe.’

Bernard Mason Kilner was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, on 5 March 1920, the son of the famous Yorkshire and England cricketer, Roy Kilner. He was Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment on 24 August 1939, and was promoted Lieutenant on 5 September 1942, and Captain on 5 March 1947, having spent much of the Second World War as an Acting and Temporary Captain and Major. He served in the Korean War and was promoted Major on 5 March 1954. Specially employed in Ghana Army between 1 July 1958 and 27 May 1959, Major Kilner finally retired from the Army on 31 March 1969.