Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A ‘Malayan Emergency’ casualty General Service Medal awarded to Guardsman S. Palfrey, 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, who was killed in action on 28 May 1950 when his patrol encountered 8 enemy bandits in the Malayan jungle

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (22166679 Gdsm. S. Palfrey. Coldm. Gds.) extremely fine £260-£300

Stanley Palfrey was born in the village of Broadhempston, Devon, on 29 October 1930. He joined the Coldstream Guards in 1949, and served with the Regiment during the Malayan Emergency. Posted to Bidor in Lower Perak, Palfrey and his fellow guardsman carried out repeated jungle patrols designed to root out Communist insurgents; it was whilst engaged on a mission to recover the body of Guardsman J. F. Parkin - who had been killed in an earlier engagement - that Palfrey was wounded in the stomach and died before he could be evacuated to hospital.

The ambush which led to the loss of Palfrey also resulted in the death of Sergeant Ian ‘Jock’ Lawson, M.B.E., a former Guards Para who reputedly served in the S.A.S. during the Second World War; the two men were later buried in adjoining plots at the Batu Gadju Cemetery in Perak.

Sold with copied research including a photograph of the recipient and his grave prior to exhumation in 1969 and cremation at the Sek Kenh Cheng Crematorium, Kuala Lumpur.