Auction Catalogue

12 May 2015

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

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Lot

№ 630

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12 May 2015

Hammer Price:
£100

Family group:

Three
: Private R. A. J. Wells, Army Veterinary Corps
British War and Victory Medals (Reg-1061 Pte., A.V.C.); Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Roderick Arthur John Wells)

Four: attributed to Private H. E. Wells, Somerset Light Infantry, Army Air Corps and Royal Ulster Rifles
1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed, good very fine and better (7) £70-90

Medals to father and son.

Horace Edward Wells was born in Chigwell, Essex on 19 January 1917. He attested for the Somerset Light Infantry on 19 January 1939. With them he served at Gibraltar, July 1939-July 1942. Returning home, he served in the Army Air Corps, April-November 1943 before returning to the Somerset Light Infantry with whom he served in Italy, March-May 1944. He then continued to serve in Italy with the Royal Ulster Rifles, May 1944-April 1946. He was discharged to the Reserve in August 1946 and discharged from the Army on 13 August 1950.

Father’s medals with copied m.i.c. Son’s medals with Regular Army Certificate of Service; certified copy of attestation; Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; marriage certificate 1943; wedding photographs (2) - recipient in uniform; other, mainly military photographs (8); postcards (2); New Testament, inscribed, ‘To Horace’, dated 21 July 1939; German phrase book; Road Operators’ Safety Council Badge with bars, unnamed; buttons.