Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: E. J. Grainger, Royal Air Force

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed

Pair: Mary Murphy

Jubilee 1935, unnamed, in card box of issue; Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Mary Murphy)

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed; together with a corresponding set of five miniature dress medals, generally extremely fine (17)
£70-90

Medals to Granger with Air Council slip, in card forwarding box addressed to ‘E. J. Granger, Esq., Churchers College, Petersfield, Hants.’ Also with ‘Glamorgan Road Club’ medal, bronze and enamel, inscribed, ‘1930 25 Miles, E. J. Grainger, 1h.12m 30s’.

The five W.W.2 medals and miniatures sold with ‘Eighth Army Service of Thanksgiving’ programme, inscribed, ‘Sgt. Tom Sharples, R.E., 78th Div. Field Park, R.E., Italy May 9 1945’; the booklet The Road Home; the magazine, The Oak, dated Graz, Austria, 9 March 1946 and the magazine (in German) K.Z. Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern - illustrating the horrendous sights that greeted the allies at Buchenwald, Belsen, Gardelegen, Nordhausen and Ohrdruf.