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17 February 2021

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№ 400

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17 February 2021

Hammer Price:
£800

Eight: Lieutenant-Colonel T. W. J. Walters, General List, later Chief Superintendent of Police

1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Ch. Supt. Thomas W. J. Walters); United States of America, Legion of Merit, Legionnaire’s breast badge, gilt and enamel, mounted as originally worn, generally very fine (8) £200-£240

M.I.D. London Gazette 23 May 1946 (Mediterranean).

United States of America, Legion of Merit, Officer,
London Gazette 15 August 1946.

Thomas William John Walters was commissioned Second Lieutenant, General List in May 1943, and by the end of the war serving as Temporary Lieutenant Colonel.