Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Gunner E. C. Varney, 69th Battery, 21st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, a Chindit prisoner of war in Burma

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr E. C. Varney, 555, Downham Way, Bromley, Kent’, good very fine (3) £100-£140

An accompanying note states that No. 1735263 Gunner Edward C. Varney served with 69th Battery, 21st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, and was a Chindit survivor and prisoner of war of the Japanese, captured on 15 February 1942 and imprisoned at Fukuoka Camp and at the notorious Ambon Island Camp. He was lucky to be liberated on 2 September 1945. Sold with copied research including Japanese P.O.W. card.