Auction Catalogue

30 March 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 823

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30 March 2011

Hammer Price:
£250

Family lot:

Germany, Third Reich, Belgian and French Military Administration Badge, 50 x 29mm., silver and enamel, reverse numbered, ‘4181’, pin-backed

Three: attributed to L. P. Burgess, Army Catering Corps
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed, extremely fine (lot) £180-200

With two named identity disks; medal forwarding box, named to ‘Mr L. P. Burgess, 18 Old Harrow Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, T.N.37 7EG’; unofficial medals (2) - Coronation of Edward VIII and Coronation of George VI - white metal; five badges - two Army Catering Corps; base metal finger ring and a religious badge.

Together with a commemorative coloured Belgian document, ‘Hulde Van Patriotische Milities aan hun Helden 1940-1945’, named to ‘Van Wÿnsberghe, Petreus C. L., Antwerpen 2 Juli 1886, Behorende tot de Patriotische Milities Regiment Antwerpen: iv.15.782, 1 Mei 1949’, mounted on card, 510 x 383mm, which is additionally inscribed, ‘V. Wynsberghe wife of 58905 L. P. Burgess 14538235 Army Catering Corps’; with a framed document, approx., 500 x 400mm., titled, ‘Onafhankelijkheidsfont Patriotishe Milities 1940-1945 Antwerpen’ - the document bears numerous small photographs of patriots, including one of ‘V. Wynsberghe H.’ Also with two Allied ‘Safe Conduct’ leaflets for surrendering German soldiers.