Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel R. G. Osborn, Employed List, late Royal Artillery

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953, these mounted as worn; together with a set of miniature dress medals and riband bar; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (Lt. Col., Emp. List) good very fine and better (11) £250-280

Ralph Guildford Osborn was born on 20 June 1912, the son of R. J. B. Osborn, a merchant of Mussorie, United Provinces, India. He was educated at Lancing College, Sussex and Exeter College, Oxford. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1934 and served in the Second World War, becoming a Captain in 1941. Continuing to serve after the war, he was promoted Major in 1946 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1955. He was G.S.O..1, H.Q., Anti-Aircraft Command, October 1953 - October 1955 and G.S.O. 1 (Air), Middle East Land Forces, November 1955 - February 1957. Osborn was G.S.O.1, War Office, from April 1958 until his retirement in March 1959. He ceased to be a member of the Regular Army Reserve of Officers, having exceeded the age limit, in June 1968. Sold with copied service details.