Two 1939-45 Star, Burma Star and War Medal Groups to British and Indian Armies (Pte. R. D. Follis. Northants. R. with named condolence enclosure; Capt. N. G. Seton. F. F. Regt. I.A., with named condolence enclosure; box of issue -- 'Mrs B. Seton', and copy birth certificate)

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Two 1939-45 Star, Burma Star and War Medal Groups to British and Indian Armies (Pte. R. D. Follis. Northants. R. with named condolence enclosure; Capt. N. G. Seton. F. F. Regt. I.A., with named condolence enclosure; box of issue -- 'Mrs B. Seton', and copy birth certificate)

Two 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, Defence and War Medal Groups to British Army (Sjt. E. E. Green. R.C.S., with named condolence enclosure; Bdr. J. Moorehead. R.A., with named condolence enclosure)

Four Second War Groups to British Army: 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with '8th Army' bar, Burma Star, Defence and War Medals (Cpl. H. G. Lansdown. R.W. Kent R., with named condolence enclosure); 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with '8th Army' bar, Italy Star, France and Germany Star, War Medal (Gnr. J. N. Todd. R.A., with named condolence enclosure and box of issue -- 'Mr J. Todd'); 1939-45 Star, Burma Star, Italy Star, War Medal (Pte. A. McLaughlin. Lon. Scot., with named condolence enclosure); 1939-45 Star, War Medal, Long Service and G.C., G.VI.R. (Cpl. G. H. Howlett. R. Norf. R.), 2nd War Stars and Medals impressed with number/rank, name and unit, good very fine and better (31)

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INDENTPrivate Peter David Follis, 1st Bn Northamptonshire Regiment, was killed in action, Dorne, Burma, 14 June 1944 and is commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial; Captain Malcolm Garle Seton, 12th Frontier Force Regiment, served with the Chindits, captured at Chaunsarp, Burma and was a prisoner of war June 1943 to May 1945 -- fell from a cliff and was killed 1947; Sergeant Ernest Edward Green, Royal Corps of Signals, was lost when as a prisoner of war of the Japanese, the SS Lisbon Maru was torpedoed and sunk off Formosa by the U.S. Submarine, Grouper, 1/2 October 1942 -- nearly 1800 British prisoners went down with the ship; Bombardier Joseph Moorhead, 9th Coast Regiment R.A., died as a prisoner of war at Nieke Camp Thailand, 2 June 1943; Private Harold George Lansdown, 4th Bn Royal West Kent Regiment, was killed in action at Razabil Fortress, Arakan, Burma, 2 February 1944; Gunner John Niven Todd, 4th Survey Regiment R.A., was killed in action France, 23 July 1944 and was buried in the Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery; Private Arthur McLaughlin, 1st Bn London Scottish, was killed in action Italy, 7 April 1944 and was buried in Argenta Gap War Cemetery

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