Six: Warrant Officer J. A. Martin, Royal Engineers

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, S.E. Asia 1945-46, Palestine 1945-48 (1876564 L. Cpl., R.E.), 2nd clasp loose; Regular Army L.S.& G.C., E.II.R. (1876564 S. Sgt., R.E.), mounted as worn, some contact marks, very fine (6) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late A. A. Mount.

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John Allen Martin was a ‘Fort Darland Boy’, having enlisted into the R.E. at Chatham in 1939. Immediately after the War he served with the 3rd Parachute Squadron R.E. in Java and Palestine. He was killed in a road accident in 1966, aged 42 years.