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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 162

Three: Private K. Brisley, Royal West Kent Regiment

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6340962. Pte. K. Brisley. R.W. Kent. R.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, very fine (3)

K. Brisley departed Southampton aboard the Cunard White Star S.S. Laurentic on 14 September 1936 as part of the British force attempting to suppress the Palestinian Arab Nationalist uprising. Serving with the 2nd Battalion, The Buffs, he formed part of a large force composing the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, and 53 officers and 1,100 men of the Northumberland Fusiliers, Royal Irish Rifles and Royal Engineers, tasked to proceed at pace to Haifa. Nine days later, the men of this new Palestine Emergency Force arrived in Jerusalem.

Sold with an original telegram, dated 14 September 1936, 'Best Wishes Good Luck = Goater'; an impressive photo album containing approximately 90 photographs, including some impressive religious images including the Wailing Wall, the Holy Sepulchre and The Room of the Last Supper. The album also shows a derailed train and The Buffs deployed in preparation for an ambush; together with 4 silver Regimental sporting medallions, 1 named to Brisley, 3 recording Team athletic races, a further 2 Eastern Command white metal Cross Country Championship medallions, 1 named to '1935 Winning Team, 2nd Bn. The Q.O.R.W.K. Regt. Pte. K. Brisley', an Aldershot Command Bronze medallion to '1931-32 Winners, 2nd Bn. The Q.O.R.W. Kent Regt. Pte. K. Brisley', a Garrison Inter-Unit Cross Country 1936 Winners Medallion, and 6 further small bronze and base-metal medallions.


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Sold for
£150

Sale 19002 Notices
Wounded and taken Prisoner of War at Dunkirk (Casualty List 346). Repatriated by the Germans in 1943.