Burma Star 1941-45, awarded to Captain Roy Edward Henry Ransley, 1st Battalion, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)

Copper zinc alloy medal 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 Burma Star'. The medal is suspended from a dark blue ribbon with central red stripe and two orange stripes.

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'.

The Burma Star was instituted in May 1945 for personnel serving in operations in the Burma Campaign during World War Two (1939-1945) from 11 December 1941 to 2 September 1945.

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.