Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. H. Vasey, Royal Army Ordnance Corps and R.E.M.E.

General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine, Malaya (Lieut., R.A.O.C.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953, mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Langham Collection of Medals to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 15 September 1939 (Palestine), and 13 December 1949 (Malaya).

Frank Henry Harding Vasey was born on 14 February 1909, and educated at Loughton School, Erith Technical College, and Woolwich Polytechnic. He was commissioned in 1935 as a Regular Lieutenant, Ordnance Mechanical Engineer (R.A.O.C.), and served in Palestine as OIC 3rd Infantry Brigade L.A.D., and with the R.A.O.C. workshops at Sarafand. He remained in the Middle East until late 1943, serving in Mersa Matruh, Khartoum, and Eritrea, and with the 8th Army, having transferred to R.E.M.E. upon its formation. Back in England, after a spell in Eastern Command he was posted in 1944 to the War Office as a D.A.D.M.E. in ME9, to spend two years dealing with gun design and maintenance.

In late 1946 he went overseas again to become Lt.-Col. C.I.E.M.E. South Burma for 12 months until Burmese Independence, when he was posted to Malaya. On returning to the U.K. in 1950 he commanded various workshops until his retirement in October 1961, when he continued to serve R.E.M.E. as a Civilian Engineer at H.Q. Western Command until 1972. He died on 7 March 1986.