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MEDALS
POST WORLD WAR ONE
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Gunner Cecil Stanley Hunt
Royal Artillery |
1939-45 Star
Burma Star
Defence Medal
1939-45 War
Medal
Efficiency Medal (GVI. Ind.Imp.) Territorial
5337196 GNR. C.S. HUNT. R.A.
Mounted for
wear, with
brass Royal
Artillery cap
badge (moving
wheel).
Service number
indicates
original
regular
enlistment
with the Royal
Berkshire
Regiment. He
must have left
the Regular
Army and
joined the
Territorials
before 1940 to
qualify for
the E.M. by
1947 (Ind.
Imp. issue
medal).
Update: Newly
released Royal
Artillery
tracing cards
show that
Cecil Stanley
Hunt enlisted
3 February
1939 and
transferred to
the Royal
Artillery 31
May 1944. He
was posted to
6th Maritime
Regiment, R.A.
and then to
1st Maritime
Regiment in
February 1945.
In December
1945 he was
posted to 54
L.A.A.
Regiment and
was released
from service
in March 1946.
Group of
Five: £115
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Gunner H.D. Austen
Royal Artillery
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1939-45 Star
France &
Germany Star
Defence Medal
1939-45 War
Medal
Efficiency Medal (GVI. Ind.Imp.) Territorial
2034856 GNR. H.D. AUSTEN. R.A.
Mounted for
wear.
Group of
Four: £100
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Warrant Officer 2nd class C.G. Morgan
Royal Engineers
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Army
Long Service & Good Conduct Medal
(GVI. Ind. Imp.) 1859588
W.O.CL.II. C.G. MORGAN. R.E.
£75
Obviously entitled to World
War Two medals.
1939-45 War Medal 576645
E.S. EDWARDS
£12
impressed
naming. Not an
Australian or
South African.
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Warrant Officer 2nd class G.A. Moore
Royal Engineers
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1939-45 Star
Africa Star
Defence Medal
1939-45 War
Medal
Army Long
Service &
Good Conduct
Medal (GVI.
Ind.Imp.)
1863448
W.O.CL.2. G.A.
MOORE.
R.E.
Copy research.
Enlisted Royal
Engineers
1923.
Lance-Corporal
1926, Corporal
1929,
Lance-Sergeant
1933. Posted
to 24th
(Fortress)
Company in
Malta
1935,
Sergeant 1936,
Staff Sergeant
and Warrant
Officer class
2. Awarded
LSGC in 1941.
Includes
photocopy of
unit football
team on Malta
1936 which
includes
Moore.
Entitled to
World War Two
Medals. 24th
Fortress
Company
remained on
Malta until
1943 when they
transferred to
the UK. In
1944 they
served in
North West
Europe
(redesignated
as 24th Field
Company).
Group of
Five: £155
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Sergeant T. Smith
Royal Army Medical Corps
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General
Service
Medal
Palestine
4608099. PTE. T. SMITH. R.A.M.C.
1939-45
Star
Italy Star
Defence Medal
1939-45 War
Medal
Army Long
Service Good
Conduct Medal
(GVI
Brit.Om) 4608099. SJT. T. SMITH. R.A.M.C.
Copy medal roll for Palestine shows that he served with
7 General
Hospital.
Group of
Six: £210
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Signalman John Gildea
Royal Signals
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India
General
Service Medal
Waziristan
1921-24 /
North West
Frontier
1930-31 2309488 SGLN. J. GILDEA. R. SIGNALS.
1939-45
Star
Burma Star
Defence Medal
1939-45 War
Medal
Copy research. John Gildea was
born 21
January 1901
in Sligo,
Ireland. He
enlisted 16
December 1919
into the Royal
Munster
Fusiliers but
transferred in
January 1920
to the Royal
Engineers. He
then
transferred to
the Royal
Signals in
November 1920.
Posted to 2
Wireless
Signal
Squadron,
Rawalpindi,
India in March
1921. Returned
to the UK
April 1934.
Discharged 5
October 1934.
He re-enlisted
28 July 1939
and went to
India in the
Summer of
1942, serving
at the Signals
Training
Centre, Mhow,
then Peshawar
District
Signals, North
Western
Signals and
finally 5
Indian Line of
Communications.
Returned to
the UK
September 1945
and was
discharged 8
December 1945.
NOTE:
the book
"Taming The
Tiger" shows
that he is
one of only 11
men of
Royal Signals
to receive
this 2-clasp
combination.
Group of
Five:
£325
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Signalman
William Henry Lowe
Royal Signals
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India General Service Medal
North
West Frontier
1935 2321246 SGLN. W.H.
LOWE. R.
SIGNALS.
India General Service Medal
North
West Frontier
1936-37/North
West Frontier
1937-39 2321246 SGLN. W.H.
LOWE. R.
SIGNALS.
1939-45
War Medal
Un-named
Copy
rolls confirm
medals and
clasps. Last
roll states
"Discharged
383(XVI)
5.8.40" (unfit
for further
service).
William Henry
Lowe was born
11 October
1910 in New
Hantley,
Northumberland.
Enlisted 31
January 1931
and went to
India in
December 1933.
Served with
"A" Corps
Signals,
Rawalpindi.
Left India
December 1938.
To Army
Reserve March
1939.
Mobilized 12
August 1939
but
medically
discharged 5
August 1940.
Group
of Three: £375 |
Sergeant G.H. Corney
Royal Artillery
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1939-45
Star
Unnamed
Defence Medal
Unnamed
1939-45 War Medal
Unnamed
United Nations Medal
Korea
Unnamed
General Service Medal (QEII) Malaya
22208797 SGT. G.H.
CORNEY. R.A.
Army Long
Service Good Conduct Medal
(GVI. Brit.Om) 22208797
SGT. G.H. CORNEY. R.A.
Dog tag: 22208797 C.E. CORNEY
Group of
Six: £245 |
Sapper W.F.H. Mortimer
Royal Engineers (Militia)
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Efficiency
Medal (GVI) Territorial 871127 GNR. A.S. FREEMAN. R.A.
£70
Albert Samuel Freeman enlisted
in 1937. Transferred to Royal Engineers in February
1945.
Efficiency Medal (GVI) Militia 5331313 SPR. W.F.H. MORTIMER. R.E.
£95
Ind.Imp. issue.
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Lieutenant Laurence Delhunty King
Royal Leicestershire Regiment
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Defence
Medal
Unnamed
1939-45 War Medal
Unnamed
Efficiency Medal (GVI)
Territorial bar
LT. L.D. KING. R. LEICESTERS.
Laurence Delhunty King was born in London in 1911.
Brother of Desmond Bryan King.
Private Laurence Delhunty King, Leicestershire Regiment,
was commissioned in October 1939. Awarded the Efficiency
Medal and bar in London Gazette 28 November 1947.
Transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps (Emergency
Commission) 1 January 1949.
Honorary rank of Major. Entitled to at least the Defence
and War Medal for World War Two.
His brother's medals below.
Group of Three: £225
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Lieutenant Desmond Bryan King
7th Gurkha Rifles
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Defence
Medal
Unnamed
1939-45 War Medal
Unnamed
General Service Medal
Malaya
LT. D.B. KING. 7 G.R.
Efficiency Medal (QEII)
Territorial bar
LT. D.B. KING. 7 G.R.
Desmond Bryan King was born October 1913 in London.
Emergency Commission L/Cpl. D.B. King 2nd Lt. Indian
Army 12 December 1942. Posted to 7th Gurkha Rifles in
India and served with “710 G.R.” During the war Gurkha
Regiments were paired to provide training and
replacements. 710 Gurkha Rifles provided men for the 7th
and 10th Gurkha Rifles. The Efficiency Medal and the bar
to Efficiency Medal were both in the London Gazette 25
June 1954. He relinquished his commission 1 October
1963.
Efficiency Medals named to a Gurkha Rifles officer must
be very rare. His brother's medals above.
Group of Four: £525 RESERVED
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Gunner H.L. Clarke
Royal Artillery
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Queen's
Korea Medal 22357247 GNR. H.L. CLARKE. R.A.
United
Nations Medal Korea
Pair: £150
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Gunner J. Diack
Royal Artillery
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General Service Medal
(GVI) Palestine
1945-48 21038093
GNR. J. DIACK. R.A. £60
Copy medal roll.
General Service Medal
(GVI) Palestine
1945-48 4979548 PTE. N. COX.
FORESTERS. £90
Copy medal roll.
General
Service Medal (GVI) Palestine
1945-48 14087149
SPR. E.V. KEYNES. R.E.
£60
Copy medal roll.
Served with 659 Artisan
Works Company.
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Driver R. Greens
Royal Army Service Corps
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General
Service Medal (GVI) Palestine
1945-48 T/14476569
DVR. R. GREENS. R.A.S.C. £65
Copy medal roll. Served in Palestine attached to 3rd
Field Ambulance, RAMC from November 1946 to October
1947.
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General
Service Medal (GVI) Malaya
S/22310636 PTE. M.B. ALLEN. R.A.S.C. £60
In box of issue.
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Private G. Tanner
Gloucestershire Regiment
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Africa
General Service Medal (QEII) Kenya 23081405
PTE. G. TANNER. GLOSTERS. £170
The Gloucestershire Regiment.
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Corporal J.B. Smith
Royal Army Medical Corps
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Africa
General Service Medal (QEII) Kenya 21073355
CPL. J.B. SMITH. R.A.M.C. £115
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Special Constable Kulop Said Nasir
Federation of Malaya Police
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General
Service Medal (GVI)
Malaya
19046531 SGT. P.M. GLASS. R.A.M.C.
£60
22359070 SIGM. E. McGONIGLE R.
SIGS
£60
QEII
Malaya
23147710
PTE. F. ALCOCK.
R.A.O.C.
£65
2326683 W.O.CL.2. M.
ESSAY.
R.SIGS.
£65
22772130 SIGMN. A.G.
COOKE.
R.SIGS.
£60
56194 S.C. KULOP
SAID NASIR. F. OF M.
POL.
£55
(Special
Constable)
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Private H.D.C. Pickford
Wiltshire Regiment
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General Service
Medal (QEII) Cyprus 23274467
PTE. H.D.C. PICKFORD. WILTS £90
Wiltshire Regiment. Harold D.C. Pickford was
born in Warminster, Wiltshire in 1937 and
lived in Westbury. The Wiltshire Times (16
June 1956) reports on the battalion in Cyprus
and among the photos is one of men of the
Support Company at Aghirda being trained on a
Vickers gun. Among them is "Harold Pickford,
of 95 Oldfield Park, Westbury. Formerly a
railway fireman, he has been in Cyprus only a
few weeks..."
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Private
H. Walker
Royal Army Medical Corps
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General
Service Medal (QEII) Borneo / Malaya
Peninsula 23945789 PTE. H. WALKER. RAMC.
Pingat
Jasa Malaysia
Pair: £160
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Warrant
Officer class 2 M. Essay
Royal Signals
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General
Service Medal (QEII) Malaya 2326683 W.O.CL.2. M. ESSAY. R.SIGS
£65
Dei Gratia type
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Corporal
J.O. Yates
Grenadier Guards
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General
Service Medal (QEII) Cyprus 22955052 CPL. J.O. YATES. GREN.GDS.
United
Nations Medal for Cyprus
Mounted
as worn. Enlisted October 1953 and served with the
Grenadier Guards until 1971 when he transferred to
the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Confirmed to have
served in Cyprus in 1959 and 1965.
Pair: £140
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Fusilier
T. Stone
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
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General
Service Medal (QEII) Cyprus 22099076 FUS. T. STONE. R.W.F.
£95
Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
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Fusilier
A. Cornish
Lancashire Fusiliers
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General
Service Medal (QEII) Cyprus 23484148 FUS. A. CORNISH. L.F.
£80
The Lancashire Fusiliers served in Cyprus 1956
to 1959.
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Army
Long Service & Good Conduct Medal
(QEII) 23486032
SGT. J.E.S. LEWIS.
R.SIGNALS. £65
Army
Long Service
& Good
Conduct Medal
(QEII) 22285446 GNR. J.C. EDWARDS. RA.
£65
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Captain Gerald Alan Golding
Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers &
Royal Army Education Corps
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General Service Medal Near East / Cyprus 19054485 SGT. G.A. GOLDING.
R.E.M.E.
General Service Medal Northern Ireland
CAPT. G.A. GOLDING. RAEC.
Long Service Good Conduct
Medal Regular Army LT. G.A. GOLDING. RAEC.
Mounted as
worn. Copy
research.
Gerald Alan
Golding was
born 1931 in
Liverpool.
Served with
the Royal
Electrical and
Mechanical
Engineers.
Commissioned
from Warrant
Officer II
(REME) to
Lieutenant,
Royal Army
Educational
Corps 4 August
1969. Captain
4 August 1971.
Awarded Long
Service Good
Conduct Medal,
London Gazette
6 June 1972.
He died 7
March 2014.
His obituary
(Liverpool
Echo 10 April
2014) "Gerry
was in the
REME and, once
commissioned,
the RAEC
serving many
years with the
Parachute
Regiment.
Gerry was a
highly skilled
craftsman in
wood and
metal, a boat
builder and
artist."
Group of
Three: £925
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The
Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal
£60
In
box of issue.
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