Auction Catalogue

19 May 2021

Starting at 10:00 AM

.

Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Live Online Auction

Download Images

Lot

№ 260

.

19 May 2021

Hammer Price:
£240

Five: Captain K. E. Baseley, Royal Engineers

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (Capt. K. E. Baseley. R.E.) mounted as worn, last struck on a slightly thinner flan, light contact marks, good very fine (5) £120-£160

Kenneth Evans Baseley was born on 7 July 1916 and enlisted in the ranks for the Royal Engineers at Southampton on 4 March 1941, an Ordnance Surveyor by trade. Commissioned Second Lieutenant on 16 July 1943, he was promoted Lieutenant on 16 January 1944, and served as acting Captain attached to 102 Indian Survey Directorate, Royal Indian Engineers, in Java from 18 April to 28 May 1946. He transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers on 3 December 1951, and was granted the honorary rank of Major.

Sold with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Officer’s Record of Service; and an Asian identity booklet containing a photograph of the recipient.