Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Captain W. E. Behenna, Royal Army Service Corps

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (T-25215 W. Behenna. R.A.S.C.) mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s Royal Tournament Prize Medal, silver, the reverse engraved ‘1935 Tog of War 130 Stone Army R.A.S.C. Feltham Sgt. W. Behenna’, in Mappin & Webb, London, embossed case of issue, good very fine and better (6) £120-£160

Wilfred Edward Behenna was born in St Just In Roseland, Truro, Cornwall, on 2 December 1901 and attested for the Royal Army Service Corps on 2 November 1920. Advanced Mechanist Sergeant Major, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1939, and was promoted Warrant Officer Class I on 21 January 1940. He transferred to the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers on 1 October 1942, before transferring back on 22 April 1943. He was commissioned Lieutenant (Mechanist Officer) on 1 November 1943, and was promoted Captain on 1 November 1947. He died in Carnon Downs, Truro, Cornwall, on 3 November 1977.