Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Major C. F. Broomfield, Royal Hampshire Regiment

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (Major C. F. Broomfield. R. Hamps.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (Lieut. C. F. Broomfield. R. Hamps.) minor official correction to surname; Uganda Independence Medal 1962, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, good very fine (8) £240-£280

Charles Frederick Broomfield was born in Londonderry, Ireland, on 24 May 1911. He attested for the Grenadier Guards and served with them in Africa and Burma, before being commissioned into the Hampshire Regiment as Lieutenant (Quartermaster) on 25 March 1945. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in October 1948, and saw further service in Kenya against the Mau Mau, sometime being attached to the 4th Battalion, King’s African Rifles. He died in Portsmouth in 1990.

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