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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 181

(x) Eight: Colonel T. K. Foulkes, Royal Artillery

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1953; Efficiency Decoration, Territorial, officially dated '1943', with Four Additional Service clasps, these all officially dated '1958', top riband bar adapted for mounting, good very fine (8)

E.D. London Gazette 8 June 1943.

4 clasps to E.D. London Gazette 4 July 1958.

M.I.D. London Gazette 13 January 1944.

Trevor Kirk Foulkes was born in 1904 in Bangor, Wales and having served in the ranks of the Royal Artillery (Territorial) was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in June 1926. By the time of the Second World War he commanded 69 Medium Battery in Belgium & France, coming off the beaches of Dunkirk in June 1940. Serving next in the Western Desert, they served with 30 Corps at Alamein. His E.D. was promulgated in June 1943, shortly before the unit landed at Salerno. Taking a 'mention' for the Middle East, he was advanced Lieutenant-Colonel in May 1950 and shared in the 1953 Coronation. Transferred to the Reserve in May 1956, his Four Clasps followed in July 1958, with Foulkes finally retired in June 1964 and died on 15 August 1979; sold together with comprehensive research.

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Estimate
£280 to £320

Starting price
£220