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Auction: 24112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 551

Three: 2nd Lieutenant W. G. Bannister, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, late South Staffordshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. W.G. Bannister.); War Medal 1939-45, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style for display, rank on second officially re-impressed, good very fine (3)

William Gerard Bannister was born in Sheffield on 2 June 1897 and enlisted on 17 October 1914 into 2/6th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment (Territorial Force). Seeing service in France from February 1917 as a Sergeant, he was wounded in action that autumn and subsequently applied for a Commission. Sent to an Officer Cadet Training Unit in Newmarket in January 1918, he was commissioned Second-Lieutenant on 26 June 1918 into the Indian Army Reserve of Officers.

Resigning said Commission on 1 May 1922 and returning the Sheffield, he married Emily Gertrude Hattersley in 1930 and shortly afterwards the newly-weds went out to Kenya in the coffee planting business; they appear to have made East Africa their home for several decades, and Bannister is also noted as joining the Royal Air Force in late-1934 (London Gazette 25 January 1935, p. 616 refers). Seeing Second War service, he died in West Sussex on 7 May 1983 at the age of 86, his wife having predeceased him; sold together with an original paper slip confirming entitlement to the War Medal 1939-45, and a comprehensive file of copied research.

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