LIEUTENANT G.A. ANTHONY, ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT. Six: 1939-45 Star, Burma Star, Italy St
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LIEUTENANT G.A. ANTHONY, ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT. Six: 1939-45 Star, Burma Star, Italy Star, 1939-45 Defence and War Medals, all unnamed, as issued Territorial Efficiency Medal “Fid Def” legend, Territorial suspender (officially impressed: LT. G.A. ANTHONY. R.W.K.). Mounted loose style, as worn, generally Extremely Fine.
Group accompanied by copied extracts London Gazette.
Geoffrey Arthur Anthony was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant (from the Officer Cadet Force), 1/7/1944, and was promoted Lieutenant, 1/1/1949 (from emergency commission) (London Gazette 18/4/1950, page 184). His Efficiency Medal (Territorial) was announced in the London Gazette of 7/7/1950, page 3508.
An interesting combination of medals. The 1st, 2nd and 5th (Territorial) Battalions of the West Kent Regiment saw service in the Italian campaign, and only the 4th Battalion of the West Kent Regiment saw service in the Burma campaign. Anthony is not listed in “From Kent to Kohima”, so if he saw service with the 4th Battalion in Burma he presumably joined that battalion in Burma after Kohima.
There is a Geoffrey Arthur Anthony (1921-1980) born Dardar, Bombay, 11/3/1921, employed Copper Belt, Zambia, during the 1950s, died Streatham, Surrey, whose biographical details are on ancestry. Possibly the recipient.