Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Five: attributed to Sapper L. G. Thompson, Royal Engineers

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed

Four: attributed to Private T. Mayo, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry

1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed, very fine and better (lot) £140-180

Medals to Thompson with (damaged) Soldier’s Service Book; Science Exercise Book (as a Sapper); medal card forwarding box, addressed to ‘L. Thompson, Becketts Grove Cott., Hatfield, Nr Tonbridge, Kent’; identity disk (2); XXX Corps medallion, bronze sundry army forms, some in envelopes, one addressed to ‘Mr L. G. Thompson, 4 The Yard, Little Hill, East Peckham, Paddock Wood’; others to ‘5 Blackmans Lane, Hadlow, Nr Tonbridge, Kent’; booklets (2); official photographs re the Rhine Crossing (17); postcard photographs (13); photograph of recipient (1).

Medals to Mayo with Loyal Service Badge; K.S.L.I. cap badge; Army & Royal Air Force Boxing Association India Medal, 51mm., bronze (Pte. Mayo, 1st Bn. K.S.L.I. 1st Light); A.S.C.B. India Medal, Rawalpindi District Boxing, 38mm., silver, unnamed; Murree Brewery Football Cup, Winners Medal 1933, 36mm., silver, unnamed; Durand Football Tournament Medal 1933, 50mm., silver, unnamed; K.S.L.I. Sports Medals (3) 32mm., silver, one unnamed; another, ‘Winners Inter-Coy. Football 1932-33’ named to ‘Pte. T. Mayo’; another, ‘Winners Inter-Company Football 1934’, named to ‘Pte. T. Mayo’.