Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant G. St. A. Vivian, Royal Engineers, attached Bengal Sappers and Miners, who was killed in action at Orsara, Italy, 25 October 1944

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Dr. C. St. A. Vivian, “The Glen”, Plantation Road, Leighton Buzzard, Beds’, extremely fine (5) £140-180

Graham St. Aubyn Vivian was born in 1922, the son of Dr. Charles St. Aybyn Vivian and his wife Mary Elizabeth Vivian, and was educated at Epsom College, where he was a Prefect and a member of the 1st XV. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1940, and was subsequently attached to the 69th Field Company, King George V’s Own Bengal Sappers and Miners, from 28 February 1944. He was killed in action on 25 October 1944 during two days heavy fighting for Orsara, and is buried in Faenza War Cemetery, Italy.