Auction Catalogue

4 April 2001

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 974

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4 April 2001

Hammer Price:
£140

Four: Sergeant J. Amos, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence and War Medals; together with a scrap book, which includes numerous photographs of the recipient; named Buckingham Palace letter of sympathy; Observers cloth wing, and poignantly a greetings card for the recipients 21st birthday, four days before which he was killed, the medals heavily polished, thus only fine (4) £80-100

Sergeant John Amos was killed on 26 January 1943, at the age of 20. He is buried at Newburn (Lemington) Cemetery, Northumberland.