Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Major N. Wright, Seaforth Highlanders, who was Mentioned in Despatches for the Far East

General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine, S.E. Asia 1945-46, clasp carriage partially filed away for mounting purposes (2815629 Sjt. N. Wright. Seaforth) number officially corrected; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, the Second War campaign awards all privately impressed '113252 Major N. Wright. 1/Seaforth'; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (Capt. N. Wright) mounted court-style, traces of lacquer, good very fine (6) £240-£280

M.I.D. London Gazette 22 August 1946 (Far East).

Norman Wright was born in Chiswick, London, in 1904 and attested for the Seaforth Highlanders on 30 March 1925. He served with the 1st Battalion in pre-War Palestine before being commissioned Second Lieutenant from the rank of Warrant Officer Class III on 17 January 1940. By the end of the Second World War he was serving as a Major, and for his services during the Far East campaign was Mentioned in Despatches - one of just 139 ‘mentions’ given for the Far East operations, compared to around 17,000 for Burma and around 700 for the Malaya campaign. Having seen further active service post-War in South-East Asia he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in February 1949 and retired shortly afterwards to Edinburgh.

Sold with the recipient’s calling card and copied research.