A positively attributed Burma Campaign medal group of 4: Private George Alexander Sutherland, Lancashire Fusiliers

- The 1939-1945 Star. No clasp
- The Burma Star. No clasp
- Defence Medal
- War Medal

Sold together with:

- Companion 4 x space medal riband bar. With fittings
- Lancashire Fusiliers: Bi-metal WW2 era cap badge. With slider
- Lancashire Fusiliers: Bi-metal pair of shoulder titles circa 1939. With fittings
- Original War Office transmittal letter for the 4 x medals
- Original named card box of issue for medals addressed to:

Mr. G. A. Sutherland
14 Bread Street
Edinburgh

Important: Two battalions of the Lancashire Fusiliers served in Burma theatre during the Second World War. 1st Battalion - a regular army unit - had been located in India on the outbreak of the Second World War. 1/LF was famously a Special Force battalion that served as 'Chindits' in both Chindit Operations, vis Operation Longcloth (1942) & Operation Thursday (1944). 7/LF was a Territorial Army battalion that served in India and Burma 1942-1947, including service in the relief of Kohima and subsequent capture of Mandalay

George Alexander Sutherland, only son of George Sutherland & Helen Ann Fraser Sutherland (nee McGillivray), was a native of, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, where he was born on, 17 February 1924. George survived th Second World War, and returned to Edinburgh, where he is recorded living with his parents (Edinburgh Electoral Registers refer) at the family residence located at, 14 Bread Street. George A. Sutherland married Mary Hall McKay at Edinburgh, Scotland, on, 5 June 1971. He is recorded as having died in Edinburgh on, 30 July 2012

All of the Second World War campaign medals retaining their original silk ribands

Condition: The medals GVF

Code: 22873