Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Seven: Hon. Major W. S. Kent, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, late Army Service Corps

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed, mounted for display; together with a mounted set of seven miniature dress medals, good very fine (14) £120-160

Walter Sydney Kent was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1891. As a Private in the Army Service Corps he entered France on 30 June 1916. He was commissioned into the 13th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 26 March 1918. Was wounded in the attack on the village of Louvignies, 8 November 1918. Promoted to Temporary Lieutenant in September 1919 (London Gazette 2 January 1920). Appointed a regular Forces Lieutenant, July 1921 (London Gazette 17 January 1922). Appointed a Home Office Clerk (London Gazette 7 September 1926). In the Reserve of Officers, he was mobilised on 24 August 1939, appointed an Acting Major, March 1943; War Substantive Captain, June 1943; Temporary Major, August 1944. During the Second World War he served on the Staff of the 7th Armoured Division in North Africa and later on the Staff at G.H.Q., South East Asia Command. Lieutenant (War Substantive Captain) Kent having exceeded the age limit of liability to recall in the R.A.R.O., relinquished his commission on 20 June 1948 and was granted the honorary rank of Major (London Gazette 22 June 1948). He died in Kensington in 1967. With a quantity of copied research and original riband bar.