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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 254

Six: Major A.B. Whale, Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry, Late Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Tanganyika Rifles Battalion, King's African Rifles, and Leicestershire Regiment
1939-1945 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; Africa General Service 1902-56, E.II.R., one clasp, Kenya (Capt A.B. Whale KAR.); General Service 1918-62, E.II.R., one clasp, Arabian Peninsula (Major A B Whale SCLI), good very fine, last scarce to unit (6)

Major Alec Bruce Whale, (1922-87), born Cornwall; Commission Second Lieutenant, Leicestershire Regiment on 31.5.1941 and served during the Second World War in Burma; transferred to the King's African Rifles and served with the 6th Tanganyika Rifles Battalion, K.A.R. during the Burma campaign; promoted Lieutenant, 2.12.1944; after the end of the War transferred to the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, and served with the Regiment in Germany and in Somaliland; promoted Captain, 2.6.1949; served on attachment with the Kings African Rifles (7th Kenya Rifles Battalion) during the 'Mau Mau' rebellion in Kenya, and later with a K.A.R. battalion in Mauritius; promoted Major, 2.6.1956; retired, 30.11.1961.

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