Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Captain A. L. Everest, South African Engineer Corps, attached South African Air Force

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Africa Service Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45, all officially inscribed, ‘189840 A. L. Everest’, together with S.A.E.C. cap badge and lapel badges, generally good very fine or better

Pair: Lieutenant B. L. Atkinson, late South African Military Nursing Service

Africa Service Medal 1939-45 (W547282 B. L. Atkinson); War Medal 1939-45 (W547282 B. L. Atkinson), mounted as worn, together with related badges (8), four of them enamelled, including one for St. John Priory in Southern Africa ‘War Work Ambulance’, War Service Badge and Girl Friendly Society, 21 Years Membership Badge, this in silver, generally good very fine (Lot) £80-120

Arthur Leslie Everest was born in Putney, London in June 1904 and qualified for membership of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1933. By the outbreak of hostilities he was employed by Corrigal & Crickmay in Natal and, following the mobilisation of the Union Defence Force, he enlisted in the South African Engineer Corps in June 1940. Posted to 1st S.A. Division Engineer H.Q. Company, he was embarked for East Africa and thence, in April 1941, for North Africa. Having then returned to the Union at attend an officer’s training course, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in late 1941 and attached to the South African Air Force, and remained similarly employed until May 1943. Everest, who was re-employed in the Middle East in 1945, was finally released in October 1945, when he returned to his job at Corrogal & Crickmay. Elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in May 1947, he went on to establish his own practice - Everest Innes & Price-Hughes - in South Africa (afterwards Everest & Innes). He died in 1986; sold with original campaign medal issuance slip, his S.A.A.F permit, with photograph in uniform, two further portrait photographs and an ex-volunteer identity book, together with copied research, including service record.

Betty Louisa Atkinson (née Meyer) was born in Adelaide in the Cape in November 1920 and enlisted in the South African Military Nursing Service in October 1942; she subsequently served in the W.A.A.S. and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in April 1944; released from service in the rank of Lieutenant in January 1946; sold with copied service record.