A WW2 'Burma' campaign & long service medal group of 5: Captain Dennis Valentine Eliot Howard T.D., Honourable Artillery Company, late 67th (York & Lancaster) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) late Middlesex Regiment
A positively attributed Officer's Second World War 'Burma' campaign long service medal group of 5 - the TD being a unique gazetted award to the H.A.C. in 1955, comprising:
- The 1939-45 Star. No clasp
- The Burma Star. No clasp
- Defence Medal
- War Medal
- Territorial Efficiency Decoration. EIIR issue. Officially dated (1955). On Honourable Artillery Company riband
Note: The integral 'Territorial' top bar on the T.D., sans pin & adapted for mounting - and fairly typcial thus found
Territorial Efficiency Decoration verification: The Territorial Efficiency Decoration officially dated on reverse of insignia, and a unique award to the Honourable Artillery Company in the year 1955, as published in the London Gazette:
- London Gazette: Supplement of the London Gazette issue of date 28 June 1955, shown as Capt. D. V. E. Howard (189476)
The medals, with some loose threads, are mounted as-worn in the court-style, and fitted with their original silk ribands. The reverse of the mounting board retaining its long hinged-pin & clasp fittings
A fine H.A.C. Officers medal group
Condition: VF
Code: 23058