Description

Offered is a General Service Medal (1918), with clasp PALESTINE), impressed named 6284254 PTE R.G. ASHBY. THE BUFFS.; 1939 -45 Star, Africa Star, Defence and War Medals (1939-45), all un named as issued, official corrections to number and rank of first. Court mounted for display with copy medal roll and newspaper article.

R.G. ASHBY was a pre war regular soldier who served with the 2nd Battalion The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). He appears in a 1936 dated Newspaper article as a L/Cpl and is on the 2nd Battalion medal roll for Palestine.