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№ 655

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26 March 2013

Hammer Price:
£65

G.C. Interest: A Victoria Cross and George Cross Association Christmas Card, inscribed in ink, ‘From our Chairman and all the members of the Committee, yours Odette Hallowes’, card interior bearing a photograph of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II Patron of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association, very good condition

Papers and Photographs relating to Sergeant Frank James William Adams, M.M., Royal Flying Corps - Certificate of Transfer to Reserve; booklet Instructions to Operators R.F.C. Mesopotamia, August, 1917; related photographs (10) - most identified, fairly good condition (lot) £40-60

G.C. London Gazette 20 August 1946. Awarded to Odette Marie Céline Sansom, nee Brailly, for her great bravery as an agent in France, who was captured, brutally interrogated and imprisoned in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. She married her fellow agent Peter Churchill in 1947 and after a divorce, married Geoffrey Hallowes in 1956. She died in 2006. With copied research.

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London Gazette 17 September 1917. ‘6642 1st Cl. A./M. F. J. W. Adams, R.F.C. (Blackheath, S.E.)’ Items to Adams with copied death certificate and gazette extract.