WW2 BRITISH ARMY BURMA & CYPRUS CAMPAIGN MEDAL GROUP TO SGT WOOLLEY. R.A.M.C.

Description

Offered is a 1939 -45 Star, Burma Star, Defence & War Medals 1939 – 45, all have been privately engraved 6619777 CPL. R.F. WOOLLEY R.A.M.C.; General Service Medal (1918 – 62) with claps CYPRUS, correctly impressed named 6619777 SGT. R.F. WOOLEY. R.A.M.C. Period swing mounted as worn.

The naming on the British WW2 medals was possibly done by Boots, the high street chemist who offered a naming service for WW2 service personnel in the late 1940’s and 1950’s.

The Cyprus Emergency 1955 – 59 was one of the small conflicts that Britain found herself involved in during the 1950’s, the National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), a Greek Cypriot right-wing nationalist guerrilla organisation, began an armed campaign in support of the end of British colonial rule and the unification of Cyprus and Greece in 1955. Opposition from Turkish Cypriots led to the formation of the Turkish Resistance Organisation (TMT) in support of the partition of Cyprus. The Cyprus Emergency ended in 1959. Over 400 British soldiers and Police were killed.