A Nice Pre-War Palestine, WW2 Dunkirk, Africa, Italy & North West Europe Medal Group awarded to 5569443 Pte R.M. Kennett, the 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment.

Ronald Mervyn Kennett was born on the 21st October 1916, and was from Coate, near Devizes, Wiltshire

The 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, began the war as part of the 13th Infantry Brigade, which also included 2nd Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (later 5th Essex Regiment), part of the 5th Infantry Division of the British Expeditionary Force in France. The battalion fought in a series of engagements during the Battle of France in May 1940, most notably at the Battle of Arras. After being evacuated at Dunkirk, the 2nd Wiltshire’s participated in Operation Ironclad, the capture of Vichy-held Madagascar, known as the Battle of Madagascar. The battalion went on to see action in Persia, Syria, Operations Husky & Diadem (sicily, Anzio & Rome), and then the final push into Germany helping clear pockets of resistance at Lupeck, just days before the German surrender in May 1945 - Sergeant Maurice Albert Windham Rogers won a postumous Victoria Cross for his bravery on the 3rd June 1944, the only V.C. awarded to the regiment during WW2.

The medals are mounted for display, sold with copied research confirming this is his full and correct medal entitlement, and are as follows -

General Service medal 1918-62, clasp, Palestine, 5569443 PTE. R.M. KENNETT. WILTS. R.; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal; 1939/45 War Medal.

Condition, good very fine and better