Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Driver D. W. Spence, Army Service Corps, latterly Chief Officer, Tonbridge and Eastbourne Fire Brigades

1914-15 Star (T4-038642 Dvr., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (M4-038642 Pte., A.S.C.); Defence Medal, unnamed; Jubilee 1935, unnamed, mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals, as above, except no Defence Medal and with Association of Professional Fire Officers L.S. Medal; also with French Ministry of Public Instruction Office National des Recherches et Inventions Medallion, 57mm., bronze, reverse embossed ‘Spence’, in case, very fine and better (lot) £160-200

With two riband bars; a pocket compass; National Fire Brigade Association hat badge and German Fire Brigade badge, gilt, pin-backed; together with a file containing a large quantity of photocopied newspaper cuttings chiefly relating to Chief Officer Charles Spence and his service in, and the activities of the Tonbridge and Eastbourne Fire Brigades.

Together with books: To Fire Committed - The History of Fire-Fighting in Kent, by Harry Klopper; [H.M.S.O.], Front Line 1940-1941 - The Official Story of the Civil Defence of Britain (2 copies); booklet: Grim Glory, Pictures of Britain under Fire; two large photographs of fire crews in action; sundry pictures of fire engines; six photographs - all fire brigade related.