Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Chief Observer W. R. Melhuish, Royal Observer Corps, late Hampshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (4565 Pte., Hamps. R.); Defence Medal; Royal Observer Corps Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue, with Second Award Clasp (Chief Observer W. R. Melhuish) mounted court style for wear, third with contact marks, very fine and better (4) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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William Robert Melhuish served in the Hampshire Regiment in the Great War. He joined the Royal Observer Corps on 21 December 1942. He was awarded the Royal Observer Corps Medal, notified in A.M.O. 72 of 1957, and awarded the clasp in 1968. Sold with some copied research.