Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant M. D. M. Daniels, West Yorkshire Regiment, who was attached to the 1st Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in Korea

Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (2/Lt. M. D. M. Daniels. W. Yorks.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, court mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £240-£280

Michael David Martin Daniels was born in Croydon on 28 September 1930 and was educated at Sandhurst. He was Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, in September 1950, but whilst attending on a small arms course at Hythe in 1951, he was posted as a reinforcement for the 1st Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, who were serving in Korea. Joining the battalion, then occupying the ‘Line Kansas’ in the Imjin River area, Daniels was posted as Second in Command of the 3-in Mortar Platoon, a position he held for his entire service in Korea. After a short stay in Hong Kong with the Fusiliers, Daniels returned home to his own battalion on August 1952.

Daniels was tragically killed in a car accident on the Great North Road, on 29 August 1954, whilst returning to the Regimental Depot. A list of Officers on strength of the 1st Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, on 1 September 1951, shows a large number of attached Officers, three of whom (including Daniels) are from the West Yorks.

Sold with a very large file of research, which includes copy photographs of Lieutenant Daniels in Korea.