Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Sergeant R. W. Ellis, Parachute Regiment, late Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, who was wounded in Greece on 3 January 1945

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Fireman Ronald W. Ellis) the first five mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £160-£200

Ronald W. Ellis attested for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and transferred to the 4th Battalion, Parachute Regiment, in 1941. In 1943 he was reduced in rank from Sergeant to Corporal for ‘negligently discharging a colt pistol thereby wounding a private soldier’. He was wounded in Greece on 3 January 1945, and later joined the Fire Brigade.

Sold with two silver sports medals, engraved ‘1st. Bn. D.C.L.I. Boys P.T. Test Nov. 1933. Boy R. W. Ellis.; Razmak Bde. Cross Country Run 1935 Winning Team.’; and the recipient’s riband bar.