Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Acting Major L. T. Holmes, Manchester Regiment

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (Lt. L. T. Holmes. Manch.) mounted as worn, very fine (6) £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment.

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Leonard Taylor Holmes was born on 3 December 1913 at Wallasey, Liverpool. By 1939 he was a bank clerk at the Westminster Bank, residing at Cheam, Surrey. He attested for service in the Royal Regiment of Artillery (T.A.) on 24 April 1939, with service No. 1457604. He was mobilised and posted as Gunner to 312th (City of London) A.A. Battery, R.A. In July 1940 he was selected for officer training and sent to 133 A.A. Officer Cadet Training Unit. On 12 December 1940 he was posted as Second Lieutenant to the 81st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment R.A., on the Orkney and Shetland Defences. He was promoted Temporary Captain on 6 August 1943 and served in 21 A.A. Brigade in North Africa and Italy. In July 1944 he was posted to Middle East Infantry Training Depot pending transfer to the Manchester Regiment, but was posted for duty to the King’s Own Royal Regiment. He briefly held the acting rank of Major between August and October 1945. He joined the Army Emergency Reserve as an officer in the Royal Army Pay Corps as Lieutenant and Paymaster from the Manchester Regiment on 17 April 1956. He was awarded his Efficiency Medal (Territorial) in the London Gazette on 28 September 1956, and relinquished his commission in the Army Emergency Reserve on 3 December 1968. He died on 15 May 1989, his occupation noted as retired bank manager.

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