Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Assistant Divisional Officer Arthur Ferrar, West Riding County Fire Service, late Corporal, Royal Army Medical Corps

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, these in later named card box of issue from Army Medal Office, Droitwich; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (7402520 Cpl A Farrar RAMC) later impressed naming, in later named card box of issue; Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Asst. Div. Offr. Arthur Farrar) edge prepared prior to impressing naming, in named card box of issue, nearly extremely fine (5) £80-£120

Arthur Farrar died on 8 January 2014, aged 93. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II and afterwards in Palestine. He joined the Fire Service in 1947 and retired in 1975. As Assistant Divisional Officer of the West Riding Fire Service he was in attendance at the scene of one of the worst atrocities committed by the I.R.A. on mainland Britain when, on Monday, February 4, 1974, a 50lb bomb ripped through a coach carrying service personnel, their wives and families along the M62 at Birkenshaw, reducing the vehicle to a twisted heap of metal, killing nine soldiers and the wife and two young sons of one of them. Sold with further details taken from an article in the Spenborough Guardian, 5 February 2004, including quotes from Farrar, together with RAMC and West Riding County Fire Service cap badges.