Auction Catalogue

29 June 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1302

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29 June 2006

Estimate: £250–£350

Menu Cards (2), ‘Victory Day 8th June 1946, a Dinner given to the holders of the Victoria Cross by the Directors of the News of the World at the Dorchester Hotel, London, W1’, 228 x 152mm., inside bearing the signatures and entries of a number of V.C. recipients in pencil and ink: ‘R. F. J. Hayward, Lt. Col., V.C., M.C.’; 1st King’s Own R.L. Regt. A. Halton, V.C.’; ‘J. Halliwell, V.C., Lanc. Fusr.’; ‘J. Moyney, V.C., Irish Guards’; ‘Leonard Cheshire, R.A.F.’; ‘Sgt. J. Davies’; ‘J. G. Smyth, V.C.’; ‘Subidar Gaieghale’; ‘Upham, N.Z.E.F.’, plus two others; another, ‘R.N.V.R. Officers’ Commemoration Fund Inaugural Dinner, 2nd October, 1946, held at The R.N.V.R. Club, 52 Pall Mall, London, S.W.1’, 203 x 125mm., inside bearing the signatures, ‘Mountbatten of Burma’ and one other, a little stained, fairly good condition (2) £250-350