Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Long Range Desert Group (Rhodesia), the extremely rare khaki battle dress blouse and trousers worn by Trooper Arthur Bryant on his wedding day in 1946, the blouse bears slip-on shoulder titles of black cloth with embroidered L.R.D.G. (red faded to pink) over ‘RHODESIA’ (white), padded LRDG breast wings and parachute badge (eight feathers) in white purple pale and royal blue, on the upper right arm a red on black roundel for combined operations Zara, on the lower right arm four red on khaki inverted chevrons badge for overseas service, original internal white sewn- on WD issue lables now faded, the trousers without internal labels, the blouse with one very small moth hole in the back otherwise very good condition, the trousers with various small moth holes, wear and staining £500-700

This blouse is illustrated on p150 of ‘LRDG Rhodesia’, also a picture of Bryant on p168.