Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

A very rare Second World War Coastal Command D.S.O. group of six awarded to Group Captain A. F. Hards, Royal Air Force, who was killed at Farnborough in January 1946 while test piloting a captured Do. 335 - then the fastest piston-engined fighter in the world

Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., 1st issue, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse of the suspension bar officially dated ‘1942’; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, obverse wreath chipped on the first, otherwise extremely fine (6) £1800-2200