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4 & 5 March 2020

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Lot

№ 554

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4 March 2020

Hammer Price:
£650

Five: Flight Sergeant A. L. Curle, Royal Air Force, who served in the Bomb Disposal Section and was received a Commanders in Chief Commendation in Cyprus in 1973

Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (573686 Sgt. A. L. Curle. R.A.F.) surname partially officially corrected; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., with Second Award Bar, E.II.R., 2nd issue (573686 Sgt. A. L. Curle, R.A.F.) mounted as worn, good very fine and better (5) £100-£140

Anthony Lister Curle was born in Camberwell on 7 March 1921 and joined the Royal Air Force in January 1938 as a 37th Entry Halton Apprentice. He served with the Royal Air Force during the latter pat of the Second World War. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 15 February 1956. He received a Commendation certificate as a Flight Sergeant from Air Marshal Aitken on 1 January 1975 for Near East Air Force (i.e. operations in Cyprus), and an Honourable Disposaleer Certificate from the Defence Explosive Ordnance Disposal School dated 18 July 1975. Later that year, on 20 November, he disposed of a suspect briefcase bomb in Brackley town centre, Northamptonshire. He died in Devon in 1999.

Sold with the recipient’s named Near East Air Force Commendation by the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Certificate; the recipient’s named Honourable Disposaleer Certificate; and three photographs of the recipient.