Six: Victor Ronald Stanworth, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry and Cape Hill Brewery Fire Brigade

Defence and War Medals, unnamed; British Fire Services Association Medal (2) with suspension bar, ‘B.F.S.A. Twenty Years’, reverse inscribed, ‘V. R. Stanworth’, edge inscribed, ‘1397’, silver, mounted as worn, in named and numbered card box of issue; another, with suspension bar. ‘B.F.S.A’, edge inscribed, ‘1321 V. R. Stanworth’, bronze, mounted as worn; Cape Hill Fire Brigade Medal (2), presented by Mitchells & Butlers Ltd, 3 clasps, 1956, 1957, 1958 (last two loose), reverse inscribed, ‘Bognor Regis’, edge ‘V. R. Stanworth’, silver, mounted as worn, in card box of issue; another, 1 clasp, 1961, reverse inscribed, ‘Margate’, edge ‘V. R. Stanworth’, mounted as worn, in card box of issue; with Smethwick & W. Bromwich Fire Service Medal (2), dated ‘1949’ bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘First Prize Industrial Brigades Motor Pump Drill. Awarded to V. Stanworth’ in case of issue; another, dated ‘1950’, reverse inscribed, ‘First Prize Industrial Brigades Motor Pump Drill. Awarded to V. Stanworth’, in case of issue; Siebe, Gorman & Co. Ltd. Prize Medal (2), silver and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented by Siebe, Gorman & Co. Ltd. to [blank] member of Winning Team’; another, different, silver and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented by Siebe, Gorman & Co. Ltd to Sub/Off. V. R. Stanworth Member of Winning Team’, in Fattorini card box of issue; Pistol Shooting Medal, 32mm., silver, reverse inscribed, ‘ 5 K.S.L.I. Bn. Pistol Competition Highest Individual Score 4036856 Sjt. Stanworth’, in card box; School Attendance Medal, 45mm., white metal, unnamed, in case of issue; together with two prize medals named to ‘Mr W. Stanworth’ and ‘Mrs N. Stanworth’ in 1921, ‘Presented by Nettlefolds (for Dancing)’, 35 x 23mm., silver, in cases of issue, generally extremely fine (14) £200-260

Victor Ronald Stanworth was born in King’s Norton on 30 December 1916, the son of Walter and Ellen Stanworth. Enlisted into the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry on 15 March 1940 and trained at the Infantry Training Centre at Ditherington. Served in the 5th Battalion on home defence duties. Discharged in February 1946. Post war he served as a Fire Officer with industrial fire brigades. He died in the Dudley area in 1987. With some copied notes.