Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant J. H. Beasley, Pioneer Corps, late Royal Horse Guards, who was the Army Individual Cookery Champion in 1929

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935 (C. of H. J. H. Beasley. R.H.G.) contemporarily engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (304506 C. of H., J. H. Beasley. R.H.G.) very fine (4) £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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John Henry Beasley was born in Willesden, London, and attested for the Royal Horse Guards on 26 July 1922. Whilst with the Royal Horse Guards he excelled as a Cook, winning the Army Individual Cookery Championship in 1929, and was part of the Royal Horse Guards team that won the Army Cookery Challenge Shield in 1926. He received an emergency commission as Second Lieutenant in the Pioneer Corps on 28 November 1942, and was advanced War Substantive Lieutenant.

Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient.