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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 242

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel M.A.A. Little, Royal Horse Guards 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star, with 8th Army Bar; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, all contemporarily engraved ´Lieut. Colonel M.A.A. Little R.H.G´, lacquered, nearly extremely fine, together with a letter written by the recipient´s great grandfather, Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, signed ´Brassey´ Four: Lieutenant-Colonel R.H. Griffith 1939-1945 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf, nearly extremely fine, with the recipient´s riband bar, and named card box of issue, addressed to 33 Mitchley Ave, Purley, Surrey Pair: Captain G.F. May, Royal Artillery 1939-1945 Star; War Medal, extremely fine, in named card box of issue, addressed to 31 Becon Road, Falmouth, Cornwall (11) Estimate £ 140-180 Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm Archibald Albert Little, born Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, 5.6.1904, the eldest son of Brigadier M.O. Little, C.B., C.I.E., and the great-grandson of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey; educated at Eton and New College, Oxford; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 9th Lancers, 5.9.1925; promoted Lieutenant, 25.8.1926; transferred as Captain, Royal Horse Guards, 12.6.1935; served during the Second World War; Major, 25.8.1941; Lieutenant-Colonel, 13.4.1942; Killed in action, 5.10.1944, and is buried in Cesena War Cemetery, Italy. M.I.D. London Gazette Lt.-Col. (temp.) R.H. Griffith (282756), General List ´In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North-West Europe.´ Lieutenant-Colonel Royston Harling Griffith, Commissioned Second Lieutenant, General List, 12.7.1943; War Substantive Major and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, 6.7.1944. Captain G.F. May, Commissioned Lieutenant and Quarter Master, Royal Artillery, 30.6.1939; served during the Second World War and taken Prisoner of War; held in Oflag 79, Brunswick, Germany; liberated, 12.4.1945.

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