Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Captain M. H. Hailes, Railway Transport Establishment and Burma Railways

1914-15 Star (Lieut. M. H. Hailes.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. M. H. Hailes.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937 (M. H. Hailes) privately named; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Pte. M. H. Hailes, Bur. Ry. Bn. A.F.I.); France, Third Republic, Order of the Academic Palms, breast badge, silver and enamels, the last chipped, otherwise good very fine (8) £100-£140

Martin Hunter Hailes entered the French theatre as a Lieutenant in the Railway Transport Establishment. Sold with copied Medal Index Card which gives his address as ‘c/o Traffic Manager, Burma Rly. Co. Ltd., Rangoon, Burma’. French award not confirmed.