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

№ 763

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£280

Family group:

Seven
: Able Seaman J. S. Webster, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (P/JX.153440 A.B., R.N.), mounted as worn

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (3568 B/Const. C. Webster, Pal. Police) very fine and better (7) £120-160

Group to J. S. Webster sold with three photographs, one inscribed, ‘J. S. Webster on K.G.V. 1944 (sic) Prior to entering Tokio (sic) Harbour’; another inscribed, ‘J. S. Webster, Haifa, on board Bigbury Bay on illegal emigrant patrols.’

Medal to C. Webster, brother of the above, with one photograph, inscribed, ‘1947 Train blown up at Lydda - from El Kantara. Coaches telescoped. I stepped out and broke my ankle.’