Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant C. C. S. Burns, Royal Engineers, later Surveyor, Ordnance Survey

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. C. C .S. Burns, 137 Shortridge Tce., Newcastle-on-Tyne 2.’, with Army Council enclosure; Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue Charles Cyril Stewart Burns) in Royal Mint case of issue, with accompanying Ordnance Survey letter, extremely fine (5) £150-200

Charles Cyril Stewart Burns served during the Second World War as a Sergeant with the Royal Engineers in the Middle East and North Africa, where it is believed that he was employed as part of the team involved in mapping the area; in civilian life he was employed as a Higher Grade Surveyor with the Ordnance Survey. He was awarded his Imperial Service Medal in 1973 (London Gazette 24 August 1973).

Sold with 4 large and comprehensive photograph albums, Volume One titled ‘Cairo 1940; Memphis and Sakkara 1941; and Arabian Desert 1942’; Volume 2 titled ‘Palestine 1941’; Volume Three titled ‘Lebanon and Syria 1943’; and Volume 4 titled ‘People 1939-44’, the photos all annotated throughout; a smaller, personal photograph album of Palestine and the Holy Land, the photographs similarly annotated; and a contemporary tourist book of ‘Flowers and View of the Holy Land’, including 9 dried and pressed flowers.