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Auction: 23112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 954

The mounted group of four miniature Dress medals worn by 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; Efficiency Medal, Territorial, G.VI.R., mounted as worn, 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.

His full-sized awards were sold in these rooms in April 2023.

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Estimate
£60 to £80

Starting price
£40