Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Captain D. M. Grant, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (Lt. D. M. Grant. K.O.S.B.) campaign awards in named card box of issue, with enclosure, addressed to ‘D. M. Grant, Esq, 10 Kingsmead Rd. South, Oxton, Birkenhead, Cheshire’, last in named card box of issued with named enclosure, generally extremely fine (lot) £200-£300

Douglas M. Grant was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the King’s Scottish Borderers in October 1941. He served with the 2nd Battalion as part of the 7th (Indian) Division to Burma. The battalion crossed into the Arakan, and took part in the critical actions at Ngakydauk Pass and in the ‘Admin Box’, where 2 COs were killed. Later they were flown to the central front at Imphal. In early 1945 they marched towards the Irrawaddy and took part in the assault that turned the Irrawaddy line. The Battalion’s last battle took place at Prome in May 1945, by which time Rangoon had fallen and the Japanese Army’s defeat in Burma was assured. Grant was awarded the Efficiency Medal in London Gazette6 May 1949, and advanced to Captain.

Sold with the following related items and documents: Five related miniature awards, mounted for wear; Regimental Cap Badge, one tip of antler missing; Identity Bracelet, silver; a number of uniform buttons; a K.O.S.B. wooden wall plaque; a War Office letter on thanks on the occasion of recipient’s release from service, dated 17 June 1946; a letter addressed to recipient, in French, dated 14 January 1938, concerning stamp collecting and the exchange of stamps; a number of portrait photographs of recipient in uniform and in later life, and other ephemera.