Five: attributed to Colonel B. H. Williams, Royal Artillery, late Indian Army

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; India Service Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, reverse officially dated, ‘1959’, all unnamed, mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals, very fine and better (10) £120-160

M.I.D. London Gazette 19 September 1946. Temp. Captain, Indian Army (Artillery), for services in Burma.

T.D. London Gazette 17 September 1959. Major, Royal Artillery.

Brian Herbert Williams was born on 7 December 1920. In 1939 he was an undergraduate at university and his father, Owen Williams, was a Professor of Surgery at Liverpool University. He was commissioned from Bombardier to 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian Army in July 1941. He transferred to the Royal Artillery as an Acting Captain in May 1947 (seniority December 1943). Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in November 1959 and Brevet Colonel in November 1962. Colonel Williams died on 25 May 1993.

With cloth and metal insignia and also with a pewter tankard, inscribed, ‘Presented to Col. B. H. Williams, T.D. R.A.(T.A.) by the W.O’s & Sgts 359 Regiment R.A.(T.A.) 31st Oct. 1962’. With copied gazette extracts.