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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 174

Six: Acting Major A. J. Brinton, South African Intelligence Corps, who was wounded in Normandy on 13 June 1944, whilst attached to the York & Lancaster Regiment

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star, these all officially impressed '240263 A. J. Brinton'; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, mounted for display, very fine (6)

Arnold John Brinton was born on 12 November 1911 at Kimberley. Having joined the Basutoland Mounted Police and risen to Assistant Superintendent of Police, he resigned and volunteered for the war effort on 23 August 1940. Having then served a number of tours in Italian and British Somaliland with the South African Intelligence Corps, he was attached to the York & Lancaster Regiment for the D-Day landings in June 1944. It was during this campaign that he was wounded by a gun shot wound to the left calf on 13 June, being treated at Meanwood, Leeds.

Recovered from his wounds Brinton returned to farming in his native Rhodesia and was issued his Medals in November 1951; sold together with mixed riband bars, copied service record and research.

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