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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 209

An unusual Territorial Efficiency Medal group of four awarded to Captain D. B. King, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya (Lt. D. B. King. 7 G.R.); Efficiency Medal, Territorial, E.II.R., with Additional Service Bar (Lt. D. B. King. 7.G.R.), good very fine (4)

Desmond Bryan King - or 'Dizzy' to his friends and comrades - was born on 1 October 1913, the son of Lawrence, a solicitor and Isabella, of 76 Cromwell Road, Beckenham. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Gurkha Rifles on 15 November 1942 and served at the Regimental Centre in India during the Second World War. Remaining with the unit, he was granted a Short Service Regular Commission in 1952, with seniority backdated to 17 December 1948, and went on to see active service in Malaya with the 2nd Battalion (Medal & clasp). He was awarded his Efficiency Medal as per the London Gazette of 25 June 1954 - one of just two to the entire Brigade of Gurkhas in that Gazette - and added a Bar to this Medal later. King joined the Denbigh & Flint Army Cadet Force and was a Master at Brightlands School, Gloucestershire; sold together with his riband bar and copied research.

For his miniature dress medals, please see Lot 494.

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Sold for
£320

Starting price
£210