Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Nigeria, reverse engraved ‘Capt. W. J. R. Mellor, Supplementary Res. Nigeria Regiment’, with integral top riband bar, in its Royal Mint case of issue, nearly extremely fine £240-£280

William John Rochfort Mellor was born on 2 December 1905. He was commissioned into the West Yorkshire Regiment on 29 January 1925. Later joining the Colonial Service in Nigeria, he was granted an Emergency Commission during the Second War on 3 October 1941, later relinquishing his rank on 9 December as an Honorary Captain.

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