Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Mr. A. H. Pearce, Postman
Defence Medal; Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Arthur Henry Pearce) good very fine

Pair: Special Constable E. Parker
Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Long Service 1941 (Erick Parker) good very fine

One: Attributed to Private J. R. Farmer, 3rd Battalion, Oxfordshire Home Guard
Defence Medal; together with a Burford Company 3rd Bn. Oxon. H.G., Christmas card named to Pte. J. R. Farmer, very fine

Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, straight bar suspension (2), with one Additional Award Bar (12562 Cpl. S. Watts. W. Oxford Div. No. 2. Dis. S.J.A.B. 1932); with two Additional Award Bars (9513 Cpl. J. Allen Oxford C Div. No. 2. Dis. S.J.A.B. 1931) very fine (7) £60-£80

Arthur Henry Pearce was awarded the Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement as a Postman in Birmingham (London Gazette 13 September 1938)

Sold with two sterling silver prize fob medals in silver and enamel, one with coat of arms and inscribed to reverse ‘E. Pearce 440 yds Relay Championship August 5th 1922’, the other a Bournville Athletic Club prize medal, uninscribed; together with City of Birmingham Peace Celebration Medal 1914 - 1919.

Sold also with other unrelated ephemera, including a Discharge Certificate (Army Form B.2079) for 5375933 Raymond William Hawker, 4th Battalion, O.B.L.I, dated 10 July 1928; together with three sterling silver hallmarked prize medals, one lacking suspension, all unnamed but two inscribed as 4th Oxfords Platoon Football prizes for 1922; and a press cutting with a photograph of the recipient in later years.