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№ 497

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17 May 2016

Hammer Price:
£65

Five: Kenneth Rogers

193
9-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Voluntary Medical Service Medal (Kenneth Rogers) mounted as worn

Three: attributed to Corporal T. L. Shovelier, Royal Engineers

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed

Three: attributed to Captain H. M. Hay, Women’s Royal Army Corps

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39-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, all unnamed, good very fine and better (14) £80-120

Thomas Leslie Shovelier was born in 1904. A Clerk by occupation he enlisted at Canterbury on 13 May 1939. With damaged Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; National Health and Pensions Insurance Card (mounted on card); medals claim form, address given as ‘Mr T. L. Shovelier, 15 Belmont Rd., Westgate’; the address part of the medal forwarding box - ‘Mr T. L. Shovelier, 59 Lansdown Place, Hove’; medal forwarding slip; official envelope (mounted on card) giving both the above addresses; 21 Army Group Message of Thanks Card from Field Marshal Montgomery; P.O. Savings Account Card (mounted on card).

Medals to Captain Hay, with her (damaged) Military Identity Certificate bearing her photograph; identity disk; cap badge and Womens Section British Legion lapel badge, enamelled.