Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Corporal W. R. Norris, Royal Army Service Corps, late Royal Air Force

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43 and silver rosette; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed, mounted for wear

Four: H. Torrens, possibly Royal Army Medical Corps

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, unnamed, good very fine and better (10) £50-70

William Reginald Norris was born in Abertysswy, Monmouthshire on 7 August 1918. A Colliers Help by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Air Force as an Aircraftsman 2nd Class on 27 January 1938. He became a A.C. 1 in November 1939, L.A.C. in April 1940 and was promoted to Temporary Corporal in December 1940. During the war he served with No.3 Squadron, November 1939-July 1940; No. 232 Squadron, July 1940-January 1941; 25 O.T.U., January 1941-April 1942; No. 601 Squadron, April 1942-February 1944 - during which time he served in the Middle East; 90 W.U., February-March 1944; No. 18 Squadron, March 1944-March 1945. He was awarded a Good Conduct Badge on 27 January 1941. Norris was discharged on 25 October 1949 ‘Services no longer required on enlistment into the Territorial Army’. He was discharged from the R.A.S.C. T.A. on 29 October 1951. Sold with original R.A.F. Certificate of Service and Discharge; T.A. Certificate of Service; Airman’s Service and Paybook; N.H.S. Medical Card; Pensions Card; a postcard and 15 photographs of the recipient and others, in uniform.

Sold with two identity discs named to ‘7276718 Torrens H., Pres.’ and medal card forwarding box from the ‘O. i/c Medical Services & A.T.S. Records’, addressed to ‘Mr H. Torrens, 9 McKay Crescent, Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland’.