Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant L. R. H. Ward, Union Defence Force
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially impressed ‘1824 L. R. H. Ward’; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st (bilingual) issue, Union of South Africa (Sgt. L. R. H. Ward U.M.R.) mounted as worn, good very fine

Five: Corporal A. H. Gibb, Union Defence Force, who was taken Prisoner of War in North Africa in June 1942
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially impressed ‘2664 A. H. Gibb’; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st (bilingual) issue, Union of South Africa (Cpl. A. H. Gibb M.P.C.) good very fine (10) £100-£140

Archibald Hanbury Gibb was born in Johannesburg on 26 May 1911 and enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Durban Light Infantry, at Pietermartizburg in May 1940. Attached to 4th Infantry Brigade in February 1941, he was posted Missing, believed Prisoner of War, from the 3rd Field Provost Company on 6 June 1942. Repatriated in October 1944, he was discharged in March 1945.