Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Ten: Warrant Officer Class II R. H. Turner, Army Catering Corps

1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (6344449 Sjt. R. Turner. A.C.C.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Malaya, Near East, E.II.R., unofficial retaining rod between clasps (6344449 Sgt. R. H. Turner. A.C.C.); General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, South Arabia, Northern Ireland, unofficial retaining rod between clasps (6344449 W.O. Cl.2. R. H. Turner. ACC.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (6344449 Pte. R. H. Turner. A.C.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (6344449 S. Sgt. R. H. Turner. ACC.) mounted court-style for display, together with the recipient’s nine related miniature awards as worn c.1955, these lacking the Near East clasp to the GSM18, and the GSM62, cleaned, good very fine and better (10) £400-£500

Reginald Harold Turner joined the Royal West Kent Regiment (Territorial Army) in 1938 and served with them for seven months before transferring to the Royal Artillery (Regular Army). In June 1942 he transferred again, this time to the Army Catering Corps, ‘and so began a globe-trotting tour that took him to North Africa, Italy, Greece, Jamaica, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, Germany, Egypt, and Kenya. In a few weeks’ time his tour of the Middle East will be complete, and his service was marked in Aden recently by the presentation to him, by Brigadier R. M. Bremner, of his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.’ (The Army Catering Corps Journal, Spring 1967 refers).

Sold together with various Second World War Army Pamphlets; a newspaper cutting with a photograph of the recipient receiving his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; and copied research from the Army Catering Corps Journal.