Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain T. E. A. Maddox, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Capt. T. E. A. Maddox, 919C Brighton Road, Purley, Surrey’, extremely fine

Three: Lance-Sergeant R. Herberson, Royal Highlanders, who was killed in action at the Battle of Médenine on 6 March 1943
1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; War Medal 1939-45, with named (hand written) Army Council enclosure, extremely fine (7) £100-£140

Thomas Edward Arthur Maddox was born in Hooley, Surrey, in 1913, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on 19 December 1942.

Sold with the recipient’s Captain’s slip on rank insignia; Officer’s bronze R.A.O.C. cap badge and four R.A.O.C. collar dogs (three bronze and one gilt and enamel); page with photograph from the recipient's Military ID card; and two photographs of the recipient in uniform.

Reginald Herberson, of Birtley, co. Durham, attested for the Royal Highlanders, and served as a Lance Sergeant with the 7th Battalion during the Second War in North Africa. He was killed in action at the Battle of Médenine on 6 March 1943, and is buried in Sfax War Cemetery, Tunisia.