Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel R. E. H. Horn, Royal Army Service Corps, late Madras Regiment and Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Lt. R. E. Horn, 1-3 Madras R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, good very fine (5) £160-£200

R. E. H. Horn served with the 1st Battalion Madras Regiment during the Waziristan campaign of 1921-24. After leaving the Indian Army, he saw further service during the Second World War with both 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and the Royal Army Service Corps in North Africa, Italy and Greece, for which he was Mentioned in Despatches, as a Lieutenant-Colonel (London Gazette 23 May 1946).

Sold with box of issue for Second World War medals, addressed to the recipient at 55 Harrow Road, Carshalton, Surrey.