An Isle of Wight / Nottingham interest multi-medal Second World War, Korean War, Malaya Emergency & Long Service medal group of 9: Sergeant Dennis James Waite, Royal Army Pay Corps, late Transport Branch of the Royal Army Service Corps

- 1939-45 Star. No clasp
- Africa Star. No clasp
- Italy Star
- Defence Medal
- War Medal
- Korea Medal 1950-53 1st issue (T/22285362 Cpl. D. J. Wait. R.A.S.C.)
- United Nations Service Medal 1950-54
- General Service 1918-62. EIIR issue & clasp 'Malaya'  (22285362 Sgt. D. J. Waite. R.A.P.C.)
- Military LS&GC Medal. EIIR 2nd issue, with 'Regular Army' bar (22285362 Sgt. D. J. Wait. RAPC.)

The recipients surname variously impressed on the named medal Wait / Waite, all as-issued and with no corrections

Attribution: We have identified the recipient as Sergeant Dennis James Waite (formerly Lill), son of Stuart Waite and Florence Elizabeth Madgwick, whose birth in Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, was registered in the second quarter of  1924, at which time his birth was registered as Dennis James Lill - his registered death notice shows a birth date of 22 May 1924 (a research typescript summary of the recipients service with the Royal Army Pay Corps 1953-1971 gives a wrong birth date of 22 May 1922). Dennis James Waite is recorded to have died at Nottingham, England on 1987 - a legal notice published in the London Gazette refers to the deceased as a 'Retired Treasury Clerk'. Coincidentally, Sergeant Dennis James Waite, while serving as a a Sergeant in the R.A.P.C., his last recorded posting was to 'Nottingham', where he had served circa 1967-1971, and where he also married! Dennis James Waite is recorded to have had his death in Nottingham, England, registered during the second quarter of 1987

The recipient served during the Second World War, under a different Army Number, and after completion of his terms of service would have taken his discharge from the British Army sometime prior to 1948. He subsequently re-enlisted in the British Army sometime from circa 1948 - the British Army only issued '8' digit Army Numbers from circa November 1948. Pre 1948 British Army number were generally '7' digits long.

Dennis John Waite transferred to the Royal Army Pay Corps 2 February 1953 and he continued to serve with the R.A.P.C. through to taking his discharge. He was promoted 'Sergeant', 2 February 1958. He was awarded his Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, 5 March 1963. He was posted to the Regimental Pay Office in Nottingham in December 1967. Sergeant Dennis James Waite, took his final discharge from the British Army on, 8 June 1971

Medals Verification: None of the medal rolls for any of the recipients medals are accessible in the public domain (as of writing), and WW2 British Army medal index cards are a notoriously incomplete series with the records of many regiments / corps having been lost / or not known to exist

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

Sold together with hard-copy typescript of some recorded postings / promotions

Condition: WW2 medals VF others GVF

Code: 25865