1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and British War Medals; Efficiency Medal, Territorial, G.VI.R. (870494 S.Sjt. D. T. Stapley. R.E.M.E.), polished, mounted for wear, good very fine.
Desmond Theodore Stapley was born at Bristol in 1921. Anecdotal evidence from the family has him as an employee of the Keynsham Paper Mill, where he worked for over 45 years. Stapley joined the Royal Artillery as a Territorial in 1937, being posted to the Coastal District Anti-Aircraft on 11 October 1940. Further anecdotes have him serving on AA guns during the blitz and suffering burns and other injuries putting out a German incendiary bomb, and that he was in Normandy for D-Day.
