Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Arabian Peninsula (Capt. G. W. Adams. R.E.) good very fine, scarce to unit £160-£200

George Wynne Adams was born in Bristol on 30 May 1916, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant into the Movement Control, Indian Army, on 3 October 1943. He was promoted War Substantive Lieutenant on 3 April 1944, and Acting Captain on 18 April 1944, and by October 1945 was serving with the 19th Hyderabad Regiment. He transferred to the Movement Control Section, Royal Engineers with a rank of Second Lieutenant on 1 October 1946, and was advanced Captain on 3 October 1949. He relinquished his commission on 22 June 1963, and was granted the honorary rank of Major. He died in Alveston on 9 June 1982.