Five: Private R. James, Leicestershire Regiment

India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (4857793 Pte., Leic. R.); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals, the 1939-45 War awards in their original card forwarding box with related condolence slip in the name of ‘Mr. E. James ... Your son Pte. R. James’, nearly extremely fine (5) £180-220

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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Ronald James, a member of the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, died on 11 August 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 Edward and Beatrice James of Wednesbury, Staffordshire, he was 27 years of age and is buried in the Chungkai War Cemetery, Thailand; sold with pre-war portrait photograph in uniform.