Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lance-Sergeant W. H. C. Gonning, 6th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, twice wounded in Burma 1944-45

India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (6138703 Pte. W. H. C. Gonning. S. Wales Bord.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, good very fine (5) £100-120

Private W. H. C. Gonning served with the 1st Battalion in India 1936-37. He later joined the 6th Battalion which had been raised at Brecon in July 1940, and arrived in Burma in February 1944. By now a Lance-Sergeant, he was wounded at Pinwe on 17 November 1944, and again at Myitson on 15 February 1945.