Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Temporary Captain K. F. A. Moran, Hampshire Regiment, late Tank Corps and Surrey Yeomanry

1914-15 Star (1857 Pte., Surr. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.) good very fine (3) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Surrey Yeomanry.

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Private Kevin Francis Aloysius Moran, “A” Squadron, Surrey Yeomanry, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 December 1914. Later serving in the Machine Gun Corps, he was commissioned a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the Tank Corps on 30 January 1918. In the Second World War he was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment, 28 June 1940; a War Substantive Lieutenant, 29 September 1940 and a Temporary Captain, 12 September 1943. Sold with copied m.i.c.