Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Major R. W. Patterson, Royal Army Service Corps

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (Major. R. W. Patterson R.A.S.C.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, good very fine (7) £200-£240

Rupert William Patterson was born on 13 August 1914 and was educated at Sherborne School. Joining the Army in 1933, initially in the ranks, he served with the Royal West Kent Regiment between 1933 and 1937 and from 1937 in the 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards. During the Second War, he received an Emergency Commission as Second Lieutenant on 21 February 1940, serving in the British Expeditionary Force in 1940. Promoted War Substantive Lieutenant (in the field) on 21 August 1941, he was further promoted Acting Captain on 25 December 1941 and Temporary Captain on 25 March 1942. Between 1940 and 1942, he served in the Middle East, including Abyssinia and Somalia, and in 1943 was serving in Ceylon. During the last two years of the War he served in Burma as an acting Major. Promoted Major on 13 August 1950, he served in the Korean War with the Royal Army Service Corps, retiring in 1957. He lived in Kenya after this time then latterly in Austria.