Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sapper L. S. Baker, Royal Engineers, who served with No. 4 Bomb Disposal Company during the Bomb and Mine Clearance operations 1945-49

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Bomb & Mine Clearance 1945-49 (6017444 Spr. L. S. Baker. R.E.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (6017444 Spr. L. S. Baker. R.E.) the last two both in named card boxes of issue, good very fine and better (4) £600-£800

Leslie Steven Baker was born on 30 December 1920 and attested for the Royal Engineers at East Ham on 24 September 1939. He served with No. 4 Bomb Disposal Company Royal Engineers, and was a trained Electrical Wireman. He was transferred to the Army Reserve in June 1946, and is confirmed on the medal roll for the G.S.M. with clasp for service in No. 4 Bomb Disposal Company.

Sold with a Royal Engineers cap badge and red fibre identity disc named to ‘6017444 C.E. Baler, L. S.’; the recipient’s original brown Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, and Soldier’s Release Book Class ‘A’; clothing coupon book and National Registration Identity card; original character reference from the Head Master of Eastbury Senior Boy’s School, Barking, Essex, dated December 1934; and a brief biography written by the recipient’s daughter.