Auction Catalogue

12 November 2020

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Lot

№ 315

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12 November 2020

Hammer Price:
£200

Three: Major A. F. Ashburnham, Royal Army Service Corps, late Royal Sussex Regiment

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (Lieut. A. F. Ashburnham. R. Suss. R.); Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed as issued, all mounted in an old glazed frame with named condolence slip pasted to the back (Major A. F. Ashburnham) extremely fine (3) £200-£260

Anchitel Fleetwood Ashburnham was born on 26 May 1911, son of Sir Fleetwood Ashburnham, 11th Bt. and Elfrida Kirkley. He was commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment and later transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps, with whom he was serving as a Major when he died on active service in Palestine on 20 December 1940, aged 29. He is buried in Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel and Palestine.