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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 326

Eight: Major (Quartermaster) R.F. Baldry, Royal Anglian Regiment, Late Regimental Sergeant Major 3rd East Anglian Regiment, and Essex Regiment
1939-1945 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; United Nations Medal for Korea; General Service 1918-62, E.II.R., one clasp, Malaya (2665712 W.O.Cl.1. R.F. Baldry. 3 E. Anglian.); General Service 1962-2007, three clasps, South Arabia, Radfan, Northern Ireland (Lt. R.F. Baldry. 1 E Anglian.), with unofficial rivets; Army Long Service & G.C., E.II.R., with 'Regular Army' bar suspension (2665712 W.O.Cl.1. R.F. Baldry. 3 E. Anglian), light contact marks, therefore nearly very fine or better, mounted as originally worn, with the recipient's related miniature awards and a Normandy Campaign Commemorative Medal, numbered '16296' (8)

Major Raymond Frederick Baldry (1924-1997); born Oundle; enlisted Private, 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment, 1942; the battalion took part in the Normandy Landings, as part of 56th Infantry Brigade, and landed on Gold Beach 6.6.1944; they also took part in the Battle of Le Havre and the advance through France and Germany; remained with the battalion in post-war Germany until 1953 (briefly returning home to Colchester to marry in 1951); served in Korea and Hong Kong before the Essex and Bedfordshire Regiments amalgamated to form the 3rd East Anglian Regiment; served as Regimental Sergeant Major with the newly formed regiment in Malaya (L.S.& G.C. 1960); commissioned Lieutenant (Quartermaster), 28.10.1963; the regiment amalgamated again and formed the Royal Anglian Regiment; Captain (Quartermaster) 1.4.1966; Major (Quartermaster) 13.12.1972; retired 24.11.1979, after 37 years' service; died in Bedford aged 73.

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