An Impressive ‘Frontiersman’ Long Service Medal Group of 11, Covering Great War Service in East Africa with Service in the Second World War and After, 1914-15 Star medal, ‘13567 L-CPL J.A. RICHARDS R. FUS.’, British War and Victory medals, ‘GS-13567 C SJT. J.A. RICHARDS R. FUS.’, 1939-45 Star medal, Africa Star medal, France & Germany Star medal, Defence medal, War medal 1939-45, Special Constabulary Long Service medal, GVI 2nd type, League of Frontiersmen Meritorious Service medal, impressed naming ‘CAPT J.A. RICHARDS’, League of Frontiersmen Loyal Long Service and Good Conduct medal, engraved naming ‘LT. COL. J.A. RICHARDS’. Group mounted as worn with small metal fixing rings on the reverse. John Albert Richards from Balham, London served with the 25th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Frontiersmen) arriving in Africa with the Battalion on 4th May 1915. This is one of only 2 British Battalions that served through the whole of the war in the East African theatre arriving in Africa on 4th May 1915 and returning to England at the end of 1917. The Battalion was disbanded mid-1918.