Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lance-Corporal F. A. Challice, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (23011809 Pte. F. Challice. Devon.); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (23011809 L/Cpl. F.A. Challice. D & D.) mounted for wear; together with a duplicate Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (23011809 Pte. F. Challice. Devon. (Duplicate)) extremely fine (3) £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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Frank Albert Challice was born in Exeter in 1935. A labourer by occupation he enlisted for National Service in March 1954 and was discharged the following month on re-enlistment into the Regular Army. Posted to the Depot, Devonshire Regiment at Exeter, he joined the 1st Battalion in Kenya on 3 August 1954 during the Mau Mau Emergency. He saw subsequent service in Germany before being transferred to Reserve in April 1957. Re-attesting for a further 12 years’ service with the Wessex Brigade at Exeter in February 1962, he was posted to the 1st Battalion, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, and served with them in Malta, Libya, Belfast, British Guinea (internal security duties 1964/65) and with the BAOR, before commencing an Emergency Tour in Northern Ireland, stationed at Armagh, on 18 January 1972. He completed a further three tours of Northern Ireland during the troubles between 1973 and 1979 before being discharged to pension on 12 January 1981. He died in Gillingham, Kent on 4 September 1987, aged 51.

Note: The recipient presumably disposed of or mislaid his original Africa General Service Medal for Kenya during his break in service 1957-62, hence his ‘duplicate’ issue. An unusual combination reunited in 1994.

Sold with copied service record and other research confirming total medal entitlement.