Bidspirit auction | WW2 Lt-Col. A.E.C. Bredin MC

WW2 Lt-Col. A.E.C. Bredin MC DSO signed Devonshire and Dorset regiment cover. After the invasion of Sicily, he was attached to the 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment as second-in-command in Italy. He rejoined the 1st Dorsets before the Normandy invasion. After the commanding officer died of wounds in late June, and a replacement needed to be hospitalized in early July, Bredin took command of the battalion. He earned the Military Cross followed by the D.S.O. In December, the battalion along with the 50th Division was withdrawn to England. By February 1945, Bredin was back in the field, having been appointed CO of the 5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment in the 43rd Division. He led the unit final drive into Germany until the end of the war in Europe. He held several postwar staff appointments before becoming CO of the 1/6th Gurkha Rifles. He command the battalion against insurgents in the Malayan Emergency from 1954 to 1956. Good condition Est.