Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sapper S. H. Dunster, Railway Operating Division, Royal Engineers

British War and Victory Medals (322739 Spr. S. H. Dunster. R.E.); Service Medal of the Order of St. John, with additional award bar (5983 Pte. S. Dunster. Chatham Div. No. 11 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1927); together with the recipient’s St. John Re-Examination Cross, silver, the reverse engraved ‘168418 Sydney Dunster’ with an uninterrupted run of 23 dated Year Bars, 1914-1936, all inscribed ‘168418’ on reverse; South Eastern & Chatham Railway Centre of the St. John Ambulance Association Medal, bronze, awarded to ‘Sidney Dunster’ in ‘1917’ for passing 7 annual examinations in succession; South Eastern & Chatham Railway Centre of the St. John Ambulance Association Medal, silver, awarded to ‘Sidney Dunster’ in ‘1924’ for passing 14 annual examinations in succession; Southern Railway St. John Ambulance Association Medal, with 21 years top brooch bar, reverse inscribed ‘Sidney Dunster 1931’; National Fire Brigades Union Long Service Medal, with ‘Ten Years’ brooch bar (3908) bronze; France, Third Republic, Customs Honour Medal; together with 2 Auxiliary Fire Service lapel badges; National Union of Railwaymen 30 Years Membership badge, silver and enamel; 3 enamelled railway badges; and 2 bowling club medals, silver and enamel, generally very fine and better (lot) £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barry Hobbs Collection of Great War Medals.

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Sydney Hollingsbee Dunster was born in 1892 in Sittingbourne, Kent and died in 1985 in the Registration District of Swale, Kent.