Africa Star 1940-43.
Awarded to Spr Percy Charles Petty, New Zealand Engineers.
Spr Percy Charles Petty was killed in action at El Alamein, 23 Oct 1942.
Copper-zinc alloy campaign medal in the form of a six-pointed star, with, on the obverse, the royal cypher, ‘GRVI’, for King George VI (1895-1952), within circlet bearing the medal name, ‘The Africa Star’, surmounted by a crown. The medal is suspended by a ring from a pale buff ribbon with central red stripe flanked by light and dark blue stripes, with clasp: ‘8th Army’.
From a medal group awarded to Sapper Percy Charles Petty, New Zealand Engineers.