Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Captain R. A. Maby, Gloucestershire Regiment, Parachute Regiment, and Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (2/Lt. R. A. Maby. Glosters.); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Malay Peninsula (Capt. R. A. Maby. RAOC.) mounted as worn, edge bruising to AGS, toned, good very fine (2) £300-£400

Dix Noonan Webb, September 2015.

Rene Alexis Maby was born in Headington, Oxford, on 22 July 1932, the son of the physicist Joseph Maby, the scientist who helped develop the early radar systems. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 22 July 1953, he was promoted Lieutenant on 22 July 1955, and served with the 1st Battalion in Kenya in 1955 as commander of the Anti-Tank Platoon. Undergoing parachute training, he transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment in 1958, and was promoted Captain on 22 July 1959. He served with them in Cyprus from December 1959, before transferring to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on 29 August 1961, and saw further service in Malaya.

Sold with array of the recipient’s unit cloth badges ands patches, including his Pegasus patch and Parachute Wings; and three photographic images.