Six: Captain (Honorary Major) A. L. Ganniclifft, 7th (Service) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, later 42nd Deoli Regiment, 2/20th Burma Rifles and 1st East African Pioneers

British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. A. L. Ganniclifft.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (2. Lieut. A. L. Ganniclifft. Som. L.I.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted for display, last nearly very fine, remainder nearly extremely fine (6) £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Rob Campbell Collection relating to Clevedon, Somerset.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919 (Egypt).

Albert Leslie Ganniclifft was born in Clevedon in April 1894, and served with the 2nd S.W.M.B.F.A. (T.F.) from December 1912. He was embodied in August 1914, and commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry in May 1915. Ganniclifft served with the Battalion on the Western Front from May 1916, and was present during operations on the Ypres Salient and the Somme. He advanced to Lieutenant in February 1917, and was wounded in action on the Ypres Salient in May of the same year.

Ganniclift was attached to the Indian Army, and served with the 2/42nd Deoli Regiment from July 1917. He served under Major-General Wapshaw as part of the Marri Field Force in operations against the Marri Tribe in Baluchistan, 18 February - 8 March 1918, and then as a Company Commander in operations with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 13 May - 31 October 1918.

Ganniclifft was posted to the Prisoner of War Camp at Sumerpur, Rajputana in April 1919, and transferred as Captain to the 2/20th Burma Rifles in February 1920. He continued to serve with the Regiment in the Federated Malay States, and was primarily engaged with the Training Battalion at Maymyo. Ganniclifft served during the Second War with the 1st East African Pioneers at the East Africa Base Depot. He relinquished his commission from the Regular Army Reserve of Officers, 1 August 1948, retaining the rank of Captain (Honorary Major).

Sold with the following related items and documents: riband bars and miniature awards; recipient’s Great War Identity Tag; recipient’s Record of Services Officers, Indian Services; a number of recipient’s Visiting Cards - as a Captain in the 20th Burma Rifles; pamphlets concerning Court Martial procedures and POWs, with his name stamped on them, a damaged monocle and other ephemera.