Orders, Decorations and Medals

General Sir Harry Tuzo, G.C.B., O.B.E, M.C., late Royal Artillery
Riband bar created for display purposes, bearing the ribbons: Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, military; Military Cross; 1939-45 Star; France & Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; General Service 1918-62; General Service 1962, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Brunei, Order of Setia Negara, mounted on card with a photograph of the General with paper slip bearing his autograph, good condition

Lieutenant-General G. Peter Walls, G.L.M., D.C.D., M.B.E., Commander Combined Operations, Rhodesia
Rhodesia, Legion of Merit, Military; Defence Cross for Distinguished Service; General Service Medal; Exemplary Service Medal, with silver rosette; G.B., Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, military; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62; Coronation 1953, mounted on card with a photograph of the General, the card signed, ‘W. P. Walls, Lt. Genl. Commander Combined Operations Zimbabwe Rhodesia, 16 Nov. 79’, good condition £30-50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Ribbons from the Collection of the late Judge Henry Pownall.

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General Sir Harry Tuzo, was born in Bangalore, India, in 1917. He joined the Supplementary Reserve of Officers in 1939 and in 1943 was given a Regular Army commission in the Royal Artillery. In the Second World War he saw service in N.W. Europe and in 1944/45 he commanded a battery of 21 Anti-Tank Regiment, R.A. in the Guards Armoured Division. After the war he held a number of Staff appointments. In 1967 he was appointed Chief of Staff, H.Q. British Army of the Rhine with the rank of Major-General and in 1969 he was appointed Director, Royal Artillery. In 1971 he was appointed General Officer Commanding and Director of Operations, Northern Ireland, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1973 he was appointed Commander Northern Army Group and C-in-C. British Army of the Rhine. Having been granted the K.C.B. in 1971, he was promoted to G.C.B. in 1973. With some copied biographical details.

Peter Walls was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia in 1926. He enlisted into the Southern Rhodesian Army in October 1944 and was commissioned into the Black Watch, British Army, in 1946. Commissioned into the Southern Rhodesian Permanent Staff Corps in 1948, he raised the Southern Rhodesian Far East Volunteer Unit for Malaya, 1950, and commanded ‘C’ (Rhodesia) Squadron 22nd Special Air Service in Malaya, 1951-53. At the time of U.D.I. in 1965 he was Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion The Rhodesian Light Infantry, 1964-67. He was later appointed Commander, Rhodesian Army, 1972-77, and Commander, Combined Operations, Rhodesia, 1977 onwards.

With copied research and copied photographs and with a signed note from Peter Walls which accompanied the above ribbon-bearing card.