Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant M. P. Emmott, South African Air Force, who witnessed active service as a pilot in Baltimores of No. 15 (S.A.A.F.) Squadron in Italy in 1945

Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, all officially inscribed, ‘136429 M. P. Emmott’ and in their registered forwarding envelope; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Union of South Africa (No. 136429 Lt. M. P. Emmott, S.A.A.F.), this last a late claim, together with embroidered S.A.A.F. Wings, enamelled squadron badge and a blazer patch, good very fine (7)
£100-150

Martin Pomeroy Emmott was born in Grahamstown in March 1918. A pre-hostilities member of the First City Regiment, he transferred to the South African Air Force as a Sergeant in December 1942 and was selected for pilot training. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on gaining his ‘Wings’ in March 1943, he was posted to the Mediterranean Air Force in December 1944 and flew operationally in Baltimores of No. 15 (S.A.A.F.) in Italy in April-May 1945. He was released in the rank of Lieutenant in September 1945 but remained on the Reserve of S.A.A.F. Officers until the 1950s.

Sold with a quantity of original documentation, comprising the recipient’s Union Defence Forces (U.D.F.) campaign medal slip, Minister of Defence message of thanks for war service, dated at G.H.Q. Pretoria, 14 September 1945, and a Defence H.Q. letter informing the recipient of his transferral to the Reserve, dated 3 November 1952; together with copied service record and 1939-45 medal verification, and four copied wartime photographs.

Also see Lot 509 for the awards to Lieutenant J. Fourie, who flew as Emmott’s navigator in No. 15 Squadron.