Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Captain R. H. Saville, Lancashire Fusiliers

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (3442593 W.O. Cl.2 R. H. Saville. Lan. Fus.) mounted as worn, light contact marks, good very fine (5) £70-£90

Roland Harvey Saville was born in 1907 and attested for the Lancashire Fusiliers. Granted an Emergency Commission as a Lieutenant (Quartermaster) on 18 January 1945, he was subsequently appointed to a Short Service Commission in the Regular Army as Lieutenant (Quartermaster), Lancashire Fusiliers, on 1 January 1949, and was promoted temporary Captain on 10 May 1953. He relinquished his commission on the completion of service on 1 September 1961, and was granted the honorary rank of Captain. He died in 1979.