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

Circular campaign medal with, on the obverse (designed by Thomas Humphrey Paget), the head of King George VI and the inscription, 'GEORGIVS VI D:G:BR:OMN:REX F:D:IND:IMP.'. On the reverse (designed by Harold Parker), the Royal Crown on an oak sapling, with lion and lioness supporters flanked by the dates, '1939' and '1945', above stylised waves and the medal name, 'The Defence Medal', within the exergue. The green ribbon has a central band of orange and two thin black stripes.

Captain 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.