Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Efficiency Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue, T. & A.V.R. (22982698 Pte. D. T. M. Richardson. Wessex.) light scratches to obverse, good very fine £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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David Thomas McDonald Richardson was born at Shrubbery Place, Heavitree, Exeter in 1906, the son of a Driver in the Royal Field Artillery. He attested aged 15 for the Territorial Army at Exeter on 26 September 1921 as a Boy in the 4th Battalion Devonshire Regiment; recorded as regularly attending Annual Training he was appointed Private in May 1922 and Bandsman in January 1927. Appointed Lance Corporal in July 1931 and promoted Corporal in March 1933, he was awarded the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) in February 1935. He was discharged on Termination of Engagement on 25 September 1937 after a total service of 16 years.

In the 1939 Register Richardson is recorded as residing at Rowntree House, Frog Street, Exeter, a Fermentation Room Brewer and ARP Warden. He enlisted again into the Territorial Army for the duration of the Emergency at Exeter on 12 December 1940 as a Gunner in the 5th A.A. Divisional ‘Z’ Training Regiment, Royal Artillery, and was posted to 158 A.A. ‘Z’ Battery RA in December 1940 before being posted to 57th H.A.A. Regiment RA in January 1941. He was discharged on 6 October 1941 after a total service of 299 days and was awarded the War Medal only.

A Brewers Foreman aged 49 he enlisted into the Wessex Brigade at Exeter on 11 October 1955 as a Private/Bandsman in the 4/Devon Regiment. He regularly attending training periods as a Bandsman from 1955 through to 1966 and was accepted and posted to the Wessex Volunteer Band in rank of Bandsman in April 1967. He was discharged on 8 February 1968 after a further total service of 12 years and 121 days and was awarded his Efficiency Medal (T&AVR) per Army Order 82 of 1969. Over his three enlistments he served a total 29 years 55 days. He died at Poltimore, Exeter on 13 April 1968, aged 61.

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