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Lot

№ 992

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5 December 2008

Hammer Price:
£90

Five: Company Serjeant Major B. J. King, Royal Engineers, late 20th Battalion London Regiment

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with Second Award Bar (6734487 Sjt., R.E.) good very fine (13) £100-140

Sold with card forwarding box for the W.W.2 medals addressed to ‘Mr B. J. King, Gate House Farm, Staplehurst, Kent’; silver cigarette case, 128 x 88 x 36mm., hallmarks for London, wooden interior, lid inscribed, ‘C.S.M. B. J. King from Sergeants Mess 20th London Regt. The Queens Own 18.8.34’, a little buckled; together with four bronze sports prize medals - three ‘20th Batt. London Regt.’, one ‘The Queen’s Regt.’ - two named; ‘20th Batt. London Regt.’ cap badge; ‘T London’ shoulder badges (2).