Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Warrant Officer Class II H. T. Roberts, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (4184652 W.O.Cl.2. H. T. Roberts. R.W. Fus.) the last stamped ‘Duplicate’, good very fine and better

Five: Sergeant J. F. Falconer, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (4187193 Sjt. J. F. Falconer. R.W. Fus.) mounted court-style for display; together with the recipient’s Royal Life Saving Society Swimming Proficiency bronze medal ‘J. F. Falconer Sept. 1932’, nearly extremely fine (10) £100-£140

Henry Thomas Roberts, a farm labourer, was born in Manchester and enlisted in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Wrexham on 24 January 1923. He was discharged on 22 January 1942 and at some point made a claim for a duplicate Regular Army L.S. & G.C. Medal.

John Frederick Falconer, a joiner, was born in Eastney, Portsmouth, on 14 February 1908, and enlisted in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Chester on 24 June 1926. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in December 1944, and was discharged in February 1946, dying not long afterwards on 21 January 1949.