Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Major C. E. V. Sams, Hampshire Regiment, later Royal West African Frontier Force

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (Capt. C. E. V. Sams. Hamps. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Major C. E. V. Sams, Trumpington Hostel, Trumpington, Cambridge’, nearly extremely fine (5) £100-£140

Charles Edward V. Sams ‘joined the Hampshire Regiment in 1926, saw service with the 1st Battalion in Indian, on the North West Frontier and also with the Royal West African Frontier Force, 1936-38. He retired in 1948, and died on 16 February 1986, aged 80’ (the recipient’s obituary in the Journal of the Royal Hampshire Regiment, ay 1986 refers).