A fine Collection of Medals to the Sherwood Foresters

Six: Lieutenant H. C. W. Ford, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, late Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £70-90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine Collection of Medals to the Sherwood Foresters.

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Herbert Charles Willoughby Ford was born in Whitchurch, Hampshire on 15 July 1898. He was commissioned into the 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters on 18 December 1917 and was promoted to Lieutenant on 18 June 1919. Retiring from the Army in 1921, he was re-commissioned into the Foresters as a Lieutenant on 22 June 1940. He served with them until December 1941 when he transferred to the R.I.A.S.C. and served in Burma; retiring once more in 1945. With copied service details.