Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: G. De Marquet, Royal Signals

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, in original addressed card forwarding box, with Army Council issuance certificate, and an old typescript copy “Order of the Day”, dated 22 March 1945, in which General Sir Montagu Stopford congratulates the men of 33 Corps on their victory at Mandalay, extremely fine

Pair: Captain J. A. Hepworth, Royal Army Service Corps

Defence and War Medals, together with related dress miniature medals, mounted as worn but with original card forwarding box addressed to the recipient in Durban, South Africa (sent in 1975), extremely fine

Pair: B. A. Underwood

Defence and War Medals, in original addressed card forwarding box with Army Council issuance certificate, very fine (10) £80-100

Hepworth was appointed to a Regular Army Emergency Commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the R.A.S.C. in September 1940 and attained the rank of Temporary Captain in January 1942.