Trying to find a name

Instructions on the reverse of the painting

 

Still no closer on identifying this man!

 

Did you ask the Military Badge Forum per my previous post?

 

Yes I did thanks SDP. Got some useful information but still haven't got a name!
Regards Richard

 

Which Regiment badge is it?

 

No one seems to know!

 

Oh dear. If they don't know, it's going to be tough! Let's just assume the impossible simply takes longer!

 

As 4jonboy said: it could be the Africa Star with 1st or 8th Army Clasp.



The one in the middle right you missed I would take to be the France and Germany Star.

 

Thanks Guys. I will keep on trying to find the mans name but when I don't know!!

 

Looks like we're running out of options on this one! The painting will have to go into storage until we find out more.

 

Possibly if you could share that information with us it may help.

 

They came up with a couple of names but they didn't check out. The forum experts also suggested that the MC was with a bar.

 

I think we are going to put the painting in storage and hope................

 

Thought I might put this one out there again You never know!!

 

And again!

 

Can anybody confirm that Major Jephson is still alive? I had assumed that he had died, but he is listed as the co-author of an upcoming book (along with his son, I think), and I have not seen an obituary.

If, as I very much hope, he is still with us, he will have celebrated his ninety-ninth birthday this summer.

I know he penned and recorded some reminiscences in the 1990s, so it's possible that he has since passed away, but--if so--I can find no trace of the fact.

A very good (and long) audio interview here:
Jephson, Francis Ronald (Oral history) (8941)

 

CF,
He died in 2001.

Francis Ronald JEPHSON
Born : 29.6.1918 Belper, Derbyshire
Died : 1Q 2001 West Surrey

Guy

 

Well found Guy

England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Francis Ronald Jephson
Death Age: 82
Birth Date: 29 Jun 1918
Registration Date: Feb 2001
Registration district: West Surrey
Inferred County: Surrey
Register Number: C11B
District and Subdistrict: 7611C
Entry Number: 43

Interesting about him being a co author - a sort of silent partner?
TD

 

Thanks, you two.

Sad to hear that he has passed on and very surprised that he didn't get a 'broadsheet obituary' given his rank, experience and MC.

I suspect that the backbone of the book (mentioned on the 'coming to a bookshelf' thread) is formed of the manuscripts he left the IWM and they've been contextualised in a wider narrative by his son.

 

All is not lost. Belper connection confirmed and his son will be contactable via the publishers of the book. Not unusual to see this sort of coauthorship as I know of at least three other examples.