The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel L. H. J. de la M. Herapath, Middlesex Regiment

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Major L. H. J. de la M. Herapath. Mx.) mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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Lionel Henry John de la More Herapath was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment on 1 September 1927. He was advanced Captain on 12 April 1937; and War Substantive Major on 30 September 1940, serving during the Second World War and in post-War Palestine. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 14 April 1953, and retired on 14 November 1955.