Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Private A. E. Ford, Welsh Regiment
1914-15 Star (11188 Pte. A. E. Ford, Welsh R.); British War and Victory Medals (11188 Pte. A. E. Ford. Welsh R.), together with the recipient’s cap badge and a Silver War Badge the reverse officially numbered ‘4906’, nearly very fine

Four: Sergeant E. G. Ford, Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Air Council enclosure, in card box of issue, named to ‘E. G. Ford, Esq., 52 Stilehall Gardens, Chiswick, London, W4.’, with riband bar for the first three awards and the recipient’s R.A.F. cap badge, extremely fine

Five: Flying Officer G. A. Stewart, Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Air Council enclosure named to ‘Flying Officer G. A. Stewart’, in damaged card box of issue addressed to ‘Mrs. G. I. I. Ford, 33, Melrose Avenue, Boreham Wood, Herts.’, extremely fine (12) £140-180

Gordon Alfred Stewart served during the Second World War with No. 203 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was commissioned from the ranks Pilot Officer on 28 August 1944, and was promoted Flying Officer on 28 February 1945. On 2 October 1945, he was the captain and pilot of a Liberator which was detailed to undertake a transit flight from Singapore to the Great Nicobar Islands. No signals were received after take-off, and it is believed that the aircraft crashed into the Bay of Bengal. Stewart is commemorated along with his crew on the Singapore Memorial. His wife, Gladys Ivy Irene Stewart, subsequently re-married Sergeant E. G. Ford.