Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Gunner P. B. Kennan, South African Artillery

1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, the second unnamed but the remainder officially inscribed, ‘582787 P. B. Kennan’, good very fine

Pair: Captain P. J. R. Kirby, South Africa Forces

War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, both officially inscribed, ‘117574 P. J. R. Kirby’, together with related T.S.C. / T.D.K. badge and a white metal Union of South Africa 1910 commemorative piece, the first officially corrected, otherwise very fine or better (9) £40-60

Paul Brereton Kennan was born at Leribe, Basutoland in January 1924 and enlisted in the Union Defence Force at Potchefstroom in March 1943. Posted to the South African Artillery as a Gunner, he was embarked for Egypt with 7/23 Medium Regiment, S.A.A. in September of the same year, and thence, in May 1944, for Italy, where he served until December 1945. He was demobilised back in Durban in the New Year and later settled in Zimbabwe, where he was President of the Institute for Agricultural Extension; sold with copied research.

Philip John Royden Kirby was born in Capetown in December 1913 and enlisted in the Union Defence Force in July 1940. Appointed to the “T” Services Corps, he joined the Ground Magazine Staff at Pretoria that December was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in May 1941. In fact Kirby remained employed in the Union for the remainder of the War, also having served as a Stores Officer (Technical) at Cullinan, and was discharged in the rank of Captain in January 1946; sold with original U.D.F. campaign medal forwarding slip and copied research.