Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

M.I.D. Certificate, awarded to Lieutenant D. J. Chenery, Royal Artillery, published in the London Gazette on 12 September 1946, good condition £40-60

Captain D. J. Chenery’s war diaries are held by the Imperial War Museum. They cover the period, 31 August 1939-May 1943, Christmas 1944 and August 1945 and record his service in England, August 1939-November 1941 as a Sergeant with the 119th L.A.A. Battery R.A. and as a Subaltern with the 89th Battery 35th L.A.A. Regiment R.A. en route to Singapore, in Malaya and Singapore, January-February 1942, and as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Java, March-October 1942 and in Japan. The diaries record the conditions of the camps - being required to sign a non-escape declaration, food shortages, work, punishments, medical conditions etc. Chenery was awarded the Efficiency Medal after the war (London Gazette 16 September 1949). With copied research.