Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (EA 18125142 Pte. Peter Bandwell. N.R.R.) cleaned, nearly very fine and scarce to unit £60-£80

Peter Bandwell served during the Malayan Emergency with the North Rhodesia Regiment against the communist pro-independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army. In 1953, when Northern Rhodesia joined Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Northern Rhodesia Regiment was amalgamated with other constituent forces into the King’s African Rifles.