Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore

Three: Captain D. B. Hooper, Devonshire Regiment and Royal Army Service Corps

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (Lt. D. B. Hooper. Devon) mounted as worn, minor edge bruising, good very fine (3) £60-£80

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

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Desmond Broad Hooper was born in Devonport in 1920. A Clerk by occupation, he attested at Plymouth as a Driver in the 43rd (Wessex) Divisional Royal Army Service Corps (T) on 20 February 1939. Embodied as a Driver in 506 Company on 1 September 1939, he was transferred to 162 Officer Cadet Training Unit on 24 April 1941 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment on 16 August 1941. He embarked for India on 22 November 1941 and was attached to the Officer Training School, Bangalore. Attached to the Royal Indian Army Service Corps establishment on 30 August 1942, he was appointed Acting Captain, Adjutant and Quartermaster of No. 11 Indian Motor Transport Regiment, Kingsway, Delhi, on 14 August 1943. Returning to the U.K. he was attached to the 4th Battalion Devonshire Regiment on 3 September 1945, and as temporary Major was posted to the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment in Hong Kong on 25 February 1946. Awarded the Defence and War Medals and the Indian Service Medal in February 1947, he was awarded the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) as a Lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment on 2 May 1947. Taken on strength at the Depot, Devonshire Regiment, on 5 September 1947, he transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps, 40 Infantry Division Transport, Coln, BAOR, on 16 June 1949, and was then posted to No. 3 Transport Office, R.A.S.C., Hong Kong as Officer in Charge on 31 December 1949. Finally posted to 118 Company, R.A.S.C., Herford, BAOR, on 7 October 1952, he shortly afterwards died at Herford, BAOR from a gun shot wound to head (suicide) on 25 November 1953, aged 33.

Sold with copied service records and other research.