Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: S. Champion, South African Forces

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially named (M11667 S. Champion)

Five: 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn; together with riband bar; two Northumberland Fusilier badges and a Normandy ‘D Day’ medallion

Pair: Sergeant L. Vallance, Royal Air Force

Sports Prize medals (2), bronze, rev. inscribed, ‘Depot Sports Iraq 1938, 1 Mile Relay, 2nd “A” Sqdn., L. Vallance’ and ‘Station Doubles 1940, 102 M.U., Runners up, Cpl. Vallance’, good very fine and better (14) £60-80

Sergeant (Air Gunner) Charles George Leonard Vallance, Royal Air Force was killed in action on 29 June 1943 whilst serving on Halifax bombers with 76 Squadron. The son of Charles and Alice Vallance of Downham, Bromley, Kent, was buried in the Heverlee War Cemetery, Leuven, Belgium. Sold with a R.A.F. Record Office letter dated 1950 relating to the forwarding of the recipient’s pre-war G.S.M. Palestine to his wife.