Auction Catalogue

10 & 11 December 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

№ 430

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10 December 2014

Hammer Price:
£140

U.S.A., Identity Disks (3) one stamped ‘Singleton, Earl H. 14253A T63 A Pos Protestant’, others similar; Senior Pilot Wings, pin-backed; Identification Card, in Air Corps United States Army wallet, to Captain Kenneth C. Sanborn, with Army Aviator Badge, pin-backed; photograph and some original papers to Pfc. Jack Lessy Elliott, 2nd Battalion 325th Glider Infantry 82nd Airborne Division; metal badges and insignia (mostly American) (14) includes: Combat Infantryman Badge; Pathfinder Badge; Combat Parachutist Badge; Combat Medical Badge; cloth patches (20); cloth rank insignia (3); riband bars (8); empty cases of issue (4) for Silver Star; Distinguished Flying Cross; Purple Heart; Air Medal; card boxes of issue (7); embroidered ‘battle honour’ ribbons (11): ‘St. Mihiel’; ‘Meuse-Argonne’; ‘Lorraine 1918’; ‘Moselle; ‘Caen-Falaise’; ‘Normandy’; ‘Northern France’; ‘Rhineland’; ‘Ardennes-Alsace’; ‘Central Europe’; ‘Afghanistan’, generally good condition (lot) £80-100

Items to Singleton with a certificate named to him ‘awarded by a grateful nation in recognition of devoted and selfless consecration to the service of our country in the Armed Forces of the United States, signed (facsimile) by President Lyndon Johnson; with several photographs of aircraft and one group photograph bearing signatures of those shown (including Singleton’s); with booklet Instrument Flying Basic without Radio Aids - all contained in a folder.

Some copied research with papers to Elliott - he was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in Normandy, 9 June 1944.