Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Captain A. R. Simpson, South African Engineering Corps

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, all officially inscribed ‘74248 A. R. Simpson’, with original registered envelope, Union Defence Forces certificate and War Records communication confirming entitlement, extremely fine

Pair: R. Epstein, South African Forces

War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, both officially inscribed, ‘119312 R. Epstein’, good very fine (7)
£60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards for the 1939-45 War.

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Aubrey Reginald Simpson was born at Mount Edgecombe, Natal in January 1910 and enlisted in the Union Defence Forces in April 1940. Subsequently commissioned in the South African Engineering Corps, he served in the 1st Field Survey Company in East Africa (August 1940-October 1941), in 46 Survey Company in North Africa (January-September 1943), and in Italy (October 1943-December 1944), in which latter month he was embarked for South Africa. He had, meanwhile, attained the rank of war substantive Captain; sold with copied service record, which confirms his entitlement to the 8th Army clasp.