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Auction: 15003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 29

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel A.N.W. Kidston, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
1939-1945 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaf; General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Major A.N.W. Kidston. A & S.H.); Coronation 1953, good very fine, mounted court style as worn, together with three photographs of the recipient (6)

M.I.D. London Gazette 4.4.1946 Lt.-Col. (temp.) A.N.W. Kidston (56738), A. & S.H.
'In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North-West Europe.'

Lieutenant-Colonel Antony Noel Wallace Kidston, born 17.7.1913, the son of Major N.W. Kidston, Royal Army Medical Corps; educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (awarded the King's Medal and Sword for the Highest Aggregate); Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 31.8.1933; promoted Lieutenant, 31.8.1936; Captain, 31.8.1941; Officer Commanding, A Company, 1st/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment; appointed Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, 9.2.1945, with the rank of Acting Lieutenant-Colonel; promoted Major, 31.8.1946; served as acting Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in Palestine, June to July 1947; retired, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 24.5.1956.

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