Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1121

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£85

Family group:

Five:
Field Reservist J. P. S. Marais, Rhodesian Police Reserve, late South African Air Force

Rhodesian Police Reserve Long Service
(50377 F./R.); Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, these four officially inscribed, ‘580856 J. P. S. Marais’, generally very fine and better

Pair: Field Reservist J. A. M. Marais, Rhodesian Police, the son of J. P. S. Marais

Rhodesian General Service Medal (18845H. F./R.); Zimbabwe Independence Medal 1980, officially numbered ‘82772’, extremely fine (7) £40-60

John Peter Stevenson Marais was born in Middelburg, Cape Province in April 1924 and enlisted in the South African Air Force in February 1943. Having then attended wireless, photography and telephone courses, he was posted to the Middle East that October, initially with an appointment in No. 17 Squadron in Palestine, but from January 1945 in No. 15 Squadron in Italy, in which capacity he remained employed until the end of the War - he was not entitled to the 1939-45 Star. Marais was demobilised in March 1946.