India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (4854285 Pte. P. V. Lewis, R. Leicesters) an officially re-impressed later or replacement issue, extremely fine £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment and Yeomanry formed by the late Trevor Harris.

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Percy Valentine Lewis, a member of the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, died on the 2 July 1943, while a P.O.W. of the Japanese - almost certainly as a result of being forced to work on the notorious “Railway of Death”. The son of John and Beatrice Lewis of Cardiff, he was 26 years of age, and is buried in the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand.