Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Fireman F. W. Coppock, National Fire Service

Defence Medal; British Fire Services Association Meritorious Service Medal, silver (F. W. Coppock 15.5.53.)National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, 1 clasp, ‘Twenty Years’ (6789 Fredrick W. Coppock) very fine and better (3) £60-£80

Frederick W. Coppock was born on 31 January 1912. In the 1939 Register he is shown as residing at 88 Lime Walk, Oxford, and is noted as being employed as a Service Storekeeper in the Motor Industry. He died in 1989, at Oxford. The French medal and badges were most likely being presented on fire brigade exchange visits.

Sold with an Association of Conservative Clubs Distinguished Service Medal, gilt and enamel, with three additional 5 year long service clasps (F. W. Coppock 1938); a Sapeurs Pompiers Francaises, Membre Honoraire Medal, gilt and enamel; a French Fire Brigades cap badge in gilding metal featuring a fire helmet and crossed axes surrounded by a laurel wreath; a lapel badge of the Seine Inferieure, Union Departmentale des Corps de Sapeurs Pompiers, silvered, gilt, and enamel; two chrome plated shoulder titles of the Morris Motor Company Limited; a cap badge of the Austin Morris Motor Company in white metal and blue enamel, and a National Fire Service cap badge in white metal and enamel.