Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Sebastopol, Inkermann, Balaklava, clasps mounted in this order, with unofficial retaining rod and unofficial rivets between clasps, unnamed as issued; Victory Medal (2. Lieut. A. E. Mason.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, South Korean issue, the first with edge bruising and polished, this nearly very fine; the latter two nearly extremely fine (3) £160-£200

Arthur Edmund Mason was commissioned Second Lieutenant with the 8th (City of London) Battalion (Post Office Rifles), London Regiment on 28 November 1917, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 8 August 1918 and is buried in Dive Copse British Cemetery, Sailly-le-Sec, France.