Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Major G. H. T. Sleeman, Royal Army Pay Corps

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Capt. G. H. T. Sleeman. R.A.P.C.) the last in named card box of issue, good very fine and better (5) £60-£80

George Henry Trevor Sleeman was born in Penzance on 13 May 1918 and initially served with the Devon Regiment from 8 May 1939. Appointed to an Emergency Commission as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Army Pay Corps 29 November 1945, he was offered a Regular Commission as Lieutenant (Paymaster) 21 May 1946 and was posted to Hamburg as Major in October 1955. Taking his retirement on 1 August 1960, Sleeman later served four years in the Devon Army Cadet Force as Lieutenant, and died in Barnstaple on 23 March 2005.