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Auction: 24111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 650

A campaign group of five attributed to Fusilier F. Ormerod, Royal Irish Fusiliers, an aspiring war poet, who may have served with the Chindits

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, sold together with an archives of named photographs and postcards addressed to the recipient, overall very fine (5)

Frank Ormerod was certainly in service with the Royal Irish Fusiliers in 1940 and was stationed in India by 1942. At least one card written to his aunt is annotated on the reverse 'Ex Chindit' and he is photographed with a Chindit arm patch on his uniform. While in Burma Oremerd wrote a poem which suggests that he had grown increasingly sick of the war, entitled 'Disillusioned', one extract states:

In Burma now men live in hell,
Whose' going to gain? Why! Burma Shell,
And Burma Shell is money men,
Maybe eight, or nine, or ten,
So Burma cost ten thousand lives,
And heartaches for ten thousand wives,
Children left to live or die,
With none to care when the poor mites cry,
So give your lives in freedoms name You Suckers!'

Sold together with a For Loyal Service badge and a copied poem entitled Disillusioned and a portrait photograph of the recipient in the uniform of a Chindit.

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Sold for
£110

Starting price
£40