Auction Catalogue

18 & 19 September 2014

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

№ 1633

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19 September 2014

Hammer Price:
£95

Five: Warrant Officer J. S. Fifield, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R., 1st issue (F.S. J. S. Fifield, 747250), this last an official but late issue, good very fine (5) £80-100

Joseph Sydney Fifield, who was born in October 1913, served in the Royal Air Force from August 1939 until his discharge H.Q. 41 Group at Hawarden in October 1945, and qualified for his Air Efficiency Award in May of the latter year. He was also a qualified Flight Engineer.

Sold with the recipient’s original R.A.F. Service and Release Book, and a Certificate of Discharge in respect of his wife, Esher Fifield, a Flight Mechanic in the W.A.A.F., who served from November 1941 until December 1943, when she was released on compassionate grounds.