Eight: Battery Quartermaster Sergeant A. E. Inns, Royal Artillery

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1937, privately engraved ‘6134669 B.Q.M.S. Inns, A. E.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (6134669 W.O. Cl. 2. A. E. Inns. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (6134669 B.Q.M. Sjt. A. E. Inns. R.A.) mounted as worn, nearly very fine or better (8) £180-£220

M.I.D. London Gazette 29 November 1945 (Italy).

Alexander Edward Inns was born in Wimbledon, Surrey, on 21 September 1904, a Carman by trade when he attested for the East Surrey Regiment Territorial Army on 28 September 1920, and for the Royal Horse Artillery Regular Army at Kingston-on-Thames on 29 August 1921. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal in 1940. Serving with 27 Field Regiment Royal Artillery on the outbreak of war, the Regiment was part of Eastern Command based at Colchester, Essex. Serving with the B.E.F. in France from November 1939, the Regiment was evacuated in June 1940. Joining 4th Field Training Regiment at home and 5 Survey Regiment Royal Artillery on 1 January 1942, he proceeded overseas on 22 December 1942, for North Africa. Mentioned in despatches for gallant and distinguished services in Italy, he was discharged to Class "Z" Army Reserve on 21 October 1945, and from the Reserve on 7 March 1951. He died in Chelsea on 13 August 1971 (possibly an in-pensioner at the Royal Hospital) and is buried in Kingston on Thames.

The above information was extracted from on-line records.