Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Warrant Officer Class II I. S. Huff, Special Investigation Branch, Royal Military Police

General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Malaya, Arabian Peninsula, G.VI.R., unofficial retaining rod between clasps (22524538 Pte. I. S. Huff. R.M.P.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (22524538 S.Sgt. I. S. Huff. RMP.) good very fine and an extremely rare combination to this unit (2) £140-£180

Ian Stanley Huff was born in Croydon on 18 July 1933 and joined the Royal Military Police in 1951, serving initially in Malaya, before being promoted Corporal in 1953 and joining the Special Investigation Branch. This tiny unit is divided into numbered Sections, which are divided further into Detachments, and each of these is usually commanded by a Warrant Officer Class II, as Huff would end up.

Huff was posted to Aden in 1960 serving with the Aden SIB DET. In 1962 he returned to the United Kingdom and joined SIB Southern Command and in 1965, having been promoted Staff-Sergeant, joined 72 Section in Germany. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 28 August 1968. In 1970 he went out to Hong Kong for a tour as the Detachment Commander with the Hong Kong DET SIB. He was promoted Warrant Officer Class 2 and retired in 1972. He died in Peterborough on 24 April 2019.

Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient in Hong Kong.