Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (89553 Gnr. C. S. Miles. R.A.; 32752 Pte. G. E. Mann. Glouc. R.; 2979 Pte. W. H. Mc Coy. R. Suss. R.); 1939-45 Star (3), one lacking ring suspension; Africa Star (185926 J. H. Lester) officially impressed as issued to a South African recipient, silvered and lacking ring suspension; Burma Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; together with a Royal Life Saving Society Swimming Medal, bronze, reverse engraved ‘B. Holmes, July 1940’, in card box of issue; and five miniature medals, nearly very fine (lot) £60-£80

Sold together with various badges (including a Burma Star Association lapel badge), shoulder titles, and miscellaneous ephemera, including Great War Officer’s Record of Service book for Captain Edgar Arthur James, M.C., East Lancashire Regiment; a Great War letter from Corporal George Frederick Turner, D.C.M., Grenadier Guards; a post-Second War Soldiers’ Service and Pay Book for Private Harold Stokes; three Great War Field Postcards from Captain Christopher Ellis, Liverpool Regiment; various other letters and postcards; various V.C. cigarette cards and silks; and other ephemera.