Wilmslow (Cheshire) / Brighouse (West Yorkshire) local interest British Army Officer Second World War, Korean War & Long Service medal group of 4: Major Geoffrey Gowland Chambers, Royal Army Pay Corps, late Royal Regiment of Artillery

- Defence Medal
- War Medal
- United Nations: Service Medal with 'Korea' bar
- Efficiency Medal. GVI 1st issue 'Territorial' bar  (Lt. G. G. Chambers. R.A.P.C.)

Medals Verification: None of the medal rolls for any of the recipients medals are accessible in the public domain (as of writing). We can however confirm the recipients entitlement to all the medals per other sources cited below:

- Defence Medal: WW2 MIC (Officer No 143688) shows issued 17/07/1948. Service Record refers
- War Medal: WW2 MIC (Officer No 143688).shows issued 17/07/1948. Service Record refers
- United Nations: Service Medal with 'Korea' bar: Officers Service Record refers
- Efficiency Medal. GVI 1st issue 'Territorial' bar: Officers Service Record refers

Geoffrey Gowland Chambers, son of Ernest Auber Chambers (a Chartered Accountant) and Edith Kendrew Chambers (nee Learman) was born in Wilmslow, Cheshire, on 22 August 1915. Geoffrey was commissioned Second Lieutenant (Officer No 143688)) in the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 10 August 1940. He transferred to the Royal Army Pay Corps on 11 March 1945, and was advanced Major on 23 June 1954. Geoffrey Chambers relinquished his commission on 1 February 1961. Major Chambers was residing at, 59 Halifax Road, Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England, when he died, 3 April 1969

The medals mounted in the swing-style and as worn by the recipient. The silk ribands suspended from a white metal mounting bar which latter retains its long hinged pin & clasp fittings. A period  mounting dated to circa 1954, as the  recipient had originally worn the medals with the riband only of the UN award displayed as a riband only 'Hanger' (evidently awaiting issuance). On receipt of the UN medal, the recipient attached the medal with its original brooch clasp fittings onto the earlier UN riband hanger 

Sold together with some hard copy research

Condition: The silver medal mild toned, the group about GVF

Code: 25858