A Fine Second World War Sicily And Italy certificate_of_authenticity Bedfordshire Rifle Association

Bedfordshire Rifle Association

1917 and after serving in France for twenty-one months

16 Squadron sometime thereafter

(engraved in sloping capitals: 4686

in silvered metal and red lacquer

A Fine Second World War Sicily And Italy certificate_of_authenticity Bedfordshire Rifle Associationoperations M. C. group of six awarded to Acting Major W. I. Fraser, Seaforth Highlanders, who was killed in action in May 1944: the recommendation for his award cites ? coolness and courage under fire of the highest order?, not least at the crossing of the Garigliano better known to those of the Seaforth who survived that occasion as the "River of Death": Military Cross, G. VI. R., the reverse officially dated ? 1944?; 1939 45 Star; Africa Star; Italy