Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Pair: Gunner W. Osborne, Royal Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (149933 Gnr. W. Osborne. R.A.) in named card box of issue and outer OHMS envelope addressed to ‘Mr. W. Osborne, 54 Corn Exchange Buildings, Manchester’, extremely fine

Three: Captain W. G. Osborne, Northamptonshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps, who died on 5 February 1946
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, and Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card box of issue addressed to ‘W. Osborne, Esq., Higher Hollins, Chapel-en-le-Frith, via Stockport’, extremely fine (5) £100-£140

William Godfrey Osborne, the son of Gunner William Osborne, was commissioned into the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry, and served with the Royal Armoured Corps during the Second World War in North West Europe. He died on 5 February 1946, and is buried in Hanover War Cemetery, Germany.