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27 June 2007
Three: Sergeant E. Wall, Royal Air Force, late Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and Royal Flying Corps India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Tirah 1897-98, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (3702 Pte., 1st D.of C.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (45341 Sgt., R.A.F.), the first with later officially impressed naming, and slack suspension claw, nearly very fine and better (3) £100-120
Hammer Price: £120
Five: Leading Aircraftsman J. S. Dowie, Royal Air Force India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (517559 L.A.C., R.A.F.), fixed suspension, as is the case with some R.A.F. issues; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, nearly extremely fine (5) £100-120
Five: attributed to Flying Officer J. E. M. Wilson, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was killed in action serving as an Air Gunner in a Liberator of No. 358 (Special Duties) Squadron in the Far East in February 1945 - and subsequently awarded a posthumous Croix de Guerre 1939-45 Star; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; Defence and War Medals; French Croix de Guerre 1939, with star riband fitment, the first four privately inscribed in “Boots-style”, ‘F./O. J. Wilson, No. 358 Sqn.,...
Hammer Price: £160
Five: Sergeant J. A. M. Goodfellow, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, these four privately inscribed ‘572296 Sgt. J. Goodfellow, R.A.F.’; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (572296 Sgt., R.A.F.), generally good very fine (5) £140-160
Hammer Price: £170
21 September 2007
A Great War M.B.E. pair awarded to 2nd Lieutenant P. Coombs, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; British War Medal 1914-20 (2 Lieut., R.A.F.), very fine and better (2) £150-200
Hammer Price: £180
Pair: Corporal F. L. P. Pemberthy, Royal Air Force General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (1929172 Act. Cpl., R.A.F.); General Service 1962, 2 clasps, Radfan, Malay Peninsula (1929172 Cpl., R.A.F.), extremely fine (2) £100-120
Hammer Price: £190
Six: Acting Warrant Officer S. Rogers, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Act. W./O. (750388), R.A.F.); Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Act. W./O. (750388), R.A.F.), edge nicks and contact marks, generally very fine or better (6) £160-180
Hammer Price: £210
Pair: Leading Aircraftman J. Atkinson, Royal Air Force General Service 1918-62, E.II.R., 2 clasps, Malaya, Arabian Peninsula (4122813 L.A.C., R.A.F.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (4122813 L.A.C., R.A.F.), minor edge bruising and contact wear, generally good very fine (2) £150-180
Three: Senior Aircraftman C. Woodford, Royal Air Force Gulf 1990-91, 1 clasp, 16 Jan. to 28 Feb. 1991 (S.A.C. (E8255209), R.A.F.), in its named card box of issue; Saudi Arabia, Liberation of Kuwait 1991, in its case of issue; Kuwait, Liberation of Kuwait 1991, fourth grade, extremely fine (3) £200-250
Hammer Price: £220
Pair: Private A. G. Marchant, South Staffordshire Regiment, late Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in action in October 1917 British War and Victory Medals (34988 Pte., R.F.C.), together with related Memorial Plaque (Arthur George Marchant), one or two edge bruises, otherwise nearly extremely fine (3) £100-150
Hammer Price: £230
General Service 1962, 3 clasps, South Arabia, Dhofar, Northern Ireland (V 4281892 L.A.C. D. Black, R.A.F.), with original named card box of issue for the “Dhofar” clasp, further inscribed ‘Odiham, 72 Sqn.’, edge bruise, good very fine and scarce £160-180
Hammer Price: £240
A Second World War M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Warrant Officer R. P. Nelson, Royal Air Force The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (364916 F./Sgt., R.A.F.), the last named in large engraved capitals, good very fine and better (7) £250-300
Six: Flight Lieutenant H. Tweddell, Royal Air Force General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine, Malaya (564447 L.A.C., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Plt. Off., R.A.F.), generally good very fine (6) £140-160
Hammer Price: £260
A Great War O.B.E. group of three awarded to Major D. H. Cameron, Royal Air Force, late Royal Artillery, Indian Army and Royal Flying Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British War Medal 1914-20 (Major, R.F.C.); Delhi Durbar 1903, edge bruising, otherwise very fine or better (3) £200-250
Hammer Price: £340
Pair: Sergeant J. R. Law, Royal Air Force India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (327385 Cpl., R.A.F.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., coinage bust (327385 Sgt., R.A.F.), very fine and better (2) £140-160
Hammer Price: £360
Five: Flight Lieutenant R. H. Cain, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Territorials and Royal Air Force Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (F./Lt., R.A.F.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Reginald H. Cain), generally extremely fine and the fourth rare (5) £200-250
Four: Flight Lieutenant F. J. Christie, Royal Air Force Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R., M.I.D. oak leaf (Flt. Lt., R.A.F.); General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Borneo (Flt. Lt., R.A.F.), minor contact marks and a little edge bruising, otherwise good very fine (4) £250-300
Hammer Price: £410
A Second World War C.B.E. group of seven awarded to Air Commodore H. G. Jones, Royal Air Force The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., A.P.D.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt., R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, these privately inscribed ‘Grp. Capt. H. G. Jones, R.A.F.’; Jubilee 1935, this also privately inscribed, ‘Grp. Capt. H. G. Jones,...
Six: Flight Lieutenant G. W. Manton, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Royal Air Force, a Great War pilot who went on to escape Dunkirk in 1940 and gain the Air Efficiency Award in 1955 British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; Air Efficiency Award, E.II.R. (Flt. Lt., R.A.F.V.R.), together with related Dunkerque Medal and Dunkirk Veterans’ Association lapel badge, generally good very fine (8) £250-300
Hammer Price: £450
Five: Corporal D. Read, Royal Air Force, who served on bomb & mine clearance duties 1945-49 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Bomb & Mine Clearance 1945-49 (552395 Cpl., R.A.F.), one letter of surname double-stamped on the last, generally good very fine and rare (5) £350-400
Hammer Price: £460
Three: Corporal B. R. Gooch, Royal Air Force General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (582985 Jnr. Tech., R.A.F.); Korea 1950-53 (Cpl., R.A.F.); U.N. Korea, good very fine and better and rare (3) £300-350
Hammer Price: £500
An O.B.E. group of four awarded to Flight Lieutenant C. H. Tancred, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals (Capt., R.A.F.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (F./O., R.A.F.), generally good very fine and the last scarce (4) £400-500
Pair: Sergeant A. Leslie, Royal Flying Corps, a recipient of the Army M.S.M. 1914-15 Star (2021 1 A.M., R.F.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (2021 Sjt., R.F.C.), good very fine and rare (2) £350-450
Hammer Price: £550
Three: Flight Sergeant W. S. Lee, Royal Air Force, who was awarded the M.S.M. for services in Italy British War and Victory Medals (12129 F. Sgt., R.A.F.); Royal Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., coinage bust (12129 Flt. Sjt., R.A.F.), very fine or better and scarce (3) £350-400
Five: Warrant Officer S. E. Nightingale, Royal Air Force India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Mohmand 1933, North West Frontier 1935 (358659 Cpl., R.A.F.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (358659 Cpl., R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals, the last privately inscribed, ‘358659 W.O. S. E. Nightingale, R.A.F.’; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (358659 Cpl., R.A.F.), the last officially corrected, otherwise good very fine and better, and...
South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (S.A.C. D. K. Cowling (R8172502) R.A.F.), in its named card box of issue, nearly extremely fine and rare £400-500
Five: Squadron Leader E. N. Fenton, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut., R.A.F.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21 (F./O., R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals, generally very fine and the third rare (5) £300-350
Hammer Price: £580
Four: Sergeant Mechanic 1st Class A. W. Ivey, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps 1914-15 Star (2132 2 A.M., R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2132 S.M. 2, R.A.F.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21 (2132 S.M. 1, R.A.F.), contact marks, nearly very fine or better and rare (4) £200-250
Hammer Price: £600
Three: Corporal J. Adamson, Royal Air Force General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Brunei (4008803 Cpl., R.A.F.); General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Borneo (4008803 Cpl., R.A.F.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (U4008803 Cpl., R.A.F.), generally good very fine (3) £200-250
Hammer Price: £620
Five: Captain R. C. Nicholls, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, late Bedfordshire Regiment, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force: having served as a teenager in the Natal Rebellion 1906, he was commissioned in the Great War, served as an Observer in the R.F.C. on the Western Front and as an Armaments Officer under Allenby, in addition to serving in Iraq as an Indian Army Officer - he died in a flying accident in South Africa in the 1930s Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Pte., Durban Light...
Hammer Price: £680
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1920 (336852 A.C. 2 H. Phillips, R.A.F.), edge bruising and polished, nearly very fine and rare £500-600
Pair: Senior Aircraftman C. Fyfield, Royal Air Force Rhodesia 1980 (S.A.C. (A8118801), R.A.F.); Zimbabwe Independence Medal 1980, officially numbered ‘07222’, the first in its named card box of issue, good very fine and scarce (2) £400-500
Hammer Price: £780
A post-war M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Warrant Officer A. Greenhow, Royal Air Force, a veteran of the Southern Desert, Iraq operations of 1928 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Southern Desert, Iraq, Malaya (357334 L.A.C., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue ((357334) W./O., R.A.F.), the second...
Hammer Price: £820
Seven: Wing Commander the Rev. J. R. Brown, Auxiliary Air Force, late Royal Scots and Royal Air Force 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., R. Scots); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Defence and War Medals, privately inscribed, ‘Padre J. R. Brown, R.A.F.’; Coronation 1937; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Sqn. Ldr., A.A.F.), the earlier awards a little polished, otherwise generally very fine or better (7) £250-300
Hammer Price: £880
Four: Lieutenant W. H. J. Eldridge, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and Royal Naval Air Service, who was awarded the 5th Class of the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun for his services in the Great War, and elevated to the 4th Class of the Order for his services in the British Aviation Mission to Japan in the early 1920s 1914-15 Star (A. 258 C.P.O., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.N.V.R.); Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, Fourth Class breast badge,...
Hammer Price: £920
An inter-war civil M.B.E., Great War service group of seven awarded to Vice-Consul V. Wigg, Diplomatic Service, late Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force: as a young pilot in No. 65 Squadron, he was credited with at least one victory over the Western Front The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1935; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.A.F.); Sweden, Order of the North Star, Knight’s breast...
Hammer Price: £1,000
Three: Lieutenant H. E. Easton, Royal Air Force, late London Regiment and Royal Flying Corps: having been wounded as an infantryman in 1915, he was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps, and claimed 7 victories as an Observer and Gunner in No. 20 Squadron prior to being wounded again in a combat in March 1918 1914 Star, with clasp (2718 Pte., 9/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.A.F.), together with his original embroidered Observer’s brevet and a set of related...
Hammer Price: £1,100
Four: Flight Sergeant W. C. Holding, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, who was twice mentioned in despatches and a recipient of the Khedive’s Sudan Medal 1914-15 Star (2371 1 A.M., R.F.C.), second initial ‘G.’; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (2371 F. Sgt., R.A.F.); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, second type, no clasp (2371 1 A./M., R.F.C.), officially impressed naming, initials ‘C. W.’, generally very fine or better and the last rare (4) £500-600
A rare Great War M.M. pair awarded to Air Mechanic 1st Class W. Hewitt, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps Military Medal, G.V.R. (47936 2 Cl. A.M. W. Hewitt, R.F.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (47936 Cpl., R.A.F.), good very fine (2) £500-600
A post-war O.B.E., Second World War D.F.C. group of five attributed to Squadron Leader K. Dear, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge; Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1944’ and privately inscribed, ‘F./Lt. K. Dear, 239 Squadron’; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, these last three also privately inscribed, ‘F./Lt. K. Dear, 239...
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