Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Captain R. A. Maby, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, late Gloucestershire Regiment and Parachute Regiment

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (2/Lt., Glosters); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Malay Peninsula (Capt., RAOC.) mounted as worn, edge bruising to first, very fine and better (2) £240-280

Rene Alexis Maby was born in Headington, Oxfordshire in 1932, the son of Physicist, Joseph Cecil Maby, who developed the early radar systems. Graduating from Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment and served in Kenya as a commander of the Anti-Tank Platoon. Promoted to Lieutenant in July 1955 and Captain in July 1959. Following parachute training he transferred to the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment c.1958-60, serving in Cyprus before transfer to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in 1961.

With one original group photograph and two copied group photographs and close-up featuring the recipient and with copied gazette extracts and service details. With twelve cloth patches.