Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

A Second war B.E.M. group of four awarded to Sapper A. J. Richards, Royal Engineers

British Empire Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Military Division (2127095 Sppr., R.E.); Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Bomb & Mine Clearance 1945-49 (2127095 Spr., R.E.), together with L.C.C. School Attendance Medal, G.V.R., bronze, 1 clasp, 1919-20 (A. Richards), good very fine and better (5) £420-480

B.E.M. London Gazette 13.6.1946.

Arthur James Richards was born in London in 1910. During the Second World War he served as a Sapper with the Royal Engineers. Based in the United Kingdom, he was involved in bomb and mine clearance, and he continued in this work after the war’s ends. For his sterling services he was awarded the B.E.M. in the Birthday Honours List of 1946. He subsequently lived in Hoo, Rochester, Kent and died in Milton Regis Hospital in 1982.

Sold with lid of B.E.M. card box of issue and card boxes of issue for the other medals; the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book (fragmentary); ‘Elementary Safety Precautions for Bomb Disposal’ card; a letter of notification for the B.E.M. and another for the G.S.M.; enclosure slip for the B.E.M. and Defence and War Medals; a copy of the recipient’s Death Certificate (1982) and nine photographs, mostly of the recipient in company with his ‘bomb and mine clearance’ colleagues.