Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel K. H. Vaughan-Arbuckle, Auxiliary Forces India

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; India Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, India, G.VI.R. (Lt. Col. K. H Vaughan-Arbuckle, A.F.I.) first part of surname officially corrected, mounted as worn in this order; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted; and the recipient’s riband bar, very fine (5) £140-£180

Keith Hutchinson Vaughan-Arbuckle was born in Lambeth, London, in September 1909 and served with the Indian Army during the Second World War. He latterly owned a tea estate in Malabar and was attacked by a 'flying snake' in 1959, the events being published the following year in the Journal of The Bombay Natural History Society.