1939-45 Star, awarded to Captain Roy Edward Henry Ransley, 1st Battalion, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)

Campaign medal made of copper zinc alloy in the form of a six-pointed star. On the obverse, the royal cypher, 'GRI VI', for King George VI, surmounted by a crown, with a circlet inscribed with, 'The 1939-1945 Star'. The medal is suspended from a dark blue, red and light blue ribbon. This medal was awarded to British and Commonwealth personnel for operational service between 3 September 1939 and 2 September 1945.

Ransley was killed in action, aged 22, on the 17 March 1945 while attached to the 10th Nigerian Regiment and is buried at the Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma. His headstone reads 'His life a very precious memory'.

From a medal group awarded to Captain Roy Edward Henry Ransley, 1st Battalion, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).

From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.