Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Honorary Lieutenant Colonel G. M. Welsford, Royal Signals, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. M. Welsford.); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated 1943., with three further award bars, the reverses dated 1952, mounted for wear, with corresponding mounted miniature group, very fine (7) £240-£280

T.D. London Gazette, 19 August 1943.

Guy Mills Welsford, a Barrister with the Inner Temple, London, was born in Hampstead on 12 January 1897. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was commissioned into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front with the 5th Battalion from 21st February 1917. Post War he returned to chambers and served with the Royal Signals, Territorial Army, before further service during the Second War in the Italian theatre. Appointed Honorary Lieutenant Colonel, he died in London, aged 85, in September 1982.

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