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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 696

General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine (Capt. H.E.F. Middleton. R. Signals.); together with 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star, nearly extremely fine (4) Estimate £ 80-100 Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Edward Forbes Middleton, born 1910; entered as Second Lieutenant Royal Corps of Signals, 30.1.1930; Lieutenant 30.1.1933; Captain 1.8.1938; Specially Employed (local Captain to 31.7.1938) 29.10.1937 - 30.9.1941 (M.I.D. London Gazette 1.4.1941); Major 17.6.1943; Chief Instructor 17.3.1943 - 8.11.1943 and 2.7.1945 - 29.8.1945 (M.I.D. 22.3.1945); Staff Officer Grade 1 Combat Operations Headquarters, 30.8.1945 - 29.3.1946; Chief Instructor British Military Mission Greece, 14.10.1946 - 12.12.1946; General Staff Officer Grade 2 (Int.) General Headquarters Middle East Land Forces, 3.4.1948 - 30.10.1949; Lieutenant Colonel 1.4.1952; T.S. O.1 Ministry of Supply, 30.1.1955; retired 8.5.1958.

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