A Second World War Commandos (Lovat's Scouts) D-Day Group of Five Medals, awarded to 14417505 Private Anthony Airlie Royal Artillery and Lovat Scouts, comprising 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal and Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (CONST.ANTHONY AIRLIE), with case of issue, together with research material, a hand written letter from the recipient to a researcher in which he outlines his career in the British Army and later as a Police Constable with Leeds City Police (later the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police), also his two chrome helmet plates, various photographs and a typed biography.
Footnote :- Anthony Airlie was born in Leeds in 1925, and joined the army in 1942. After initial training, he joined the Royal Artillery and then volunteered for Lovats Scouts (the Commandos). Airlie was with Lord Lovat when he landed at Sword Beach on D-Day, and then made their way to Pegasus Bridge. In July of that year he was wounded by shrapnel and later shot in the foot. When he recovered from his wounds he became a despatch rider messenger in Greece and for the British Military Mission in the Sudan.