Orders, Decorations and Medals

An Order of St. John group of nine awarded to Divisional Superintendent E. A. Lucassi, St. John Ambulance Brigade, late Leading Sick Berth Assistant, Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Brother’s) breast badge, silver and enamel; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (5464 E. A. Lucassi, L.S.B.A. R.N.A.S.B.R.) edge bruise; St. John Service Medal, 3 silver clasps (18537 Sgt. E. A. Lucassi, Bedminster Div. No. 2 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1938) silver, mounted court style as worn; together with an Order of St. John, Serving Brother badge, silver and enamel, unnamed, in case, good very fine (10) £200-260

Ernest Alfred Lucassi was born in Bristol on 24 March 1900; married in June 1925 and died in June 1969.

Sold with a newspaper clipping relating to the recipient and bearing his photograph, reading: ‘Most bemedalled member of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in Bristol is Divisional Superintendent Ernest Lucassi, of Coronation Road, Bedminster. He has just received the award of a Serving Brother of this Order, which brings his total of decorations to a round dozen. A state-enrolled assistant nurse by occupation, Mr Lucassi joined the Bedminster division of the ambulance brigade in 1924. He received his commission in 1946, and was promoted divisional supt. five years later. He served in both wars - with the Hampshire Regiment in France during the first; and on Naval convoy duties in the Atlantic and the Pacific during the second. “Lu”- as he’s known among his friends - is employed in the medical department of Wills’, and is a Civil Defence demonstrator for two of the firm’s factories.’

The recipient’s Great War medals implied in the article are not with the lot.