Auction Catalogue

6 July 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 733

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£100

Family group:

Pair
: Gunner H. J. Richardson, Royal Artillery

British War and Victory Medals (208132 Gnr., R.A.), in damaged card box of issue

Four: R. S. Richardson, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, unnamed, in damaged card box of issue, with unnamed transmittal slip, extremely fine (6) £45-65

Medals to R. S. Richardson sold with photograph album bearing a typed war history of his ship, the destroyer, H.M.S. Tyrian; numerous photographs - of ships, Malta, the Japanese surrender at Hong Kong and at Tokyo Bay; views of Shanghai; the wildlife in N.S.W. - all illustrative of the recipient’s wartime service.