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MEDALS
POST WORLD WAR ONE
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Warrant
Officer Thomas
Wright
Wilkinson
King's
shropshire
Light Infantry
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Army
Long Service & Good Conduct
Medal (GVI)
4028564
W.O.CL.2. T.W.
WILKINSON.
K.S.L.I.
£85
Thomas Wright
Wilkinson enlisted
with the King's
Shropshire Light
Infantry in August
1922. In December
1933 the Essex
Chronicle reported
that "sergeant
Thomas Wright
Wilkinson" and
another soldier of
the K.S.L.I. were
caught drinking at a
pub during
"prohibited hours".
During World War Two
he is listed as
serving with the
Royal Welch
Fusiliers Training
Battalion,
presumably training
recruits. Noted in
their register
"1.1.44 KSLI" which
appears to be when
he joined them.
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2nd
Lieutenant
P.C. Jones
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General
Service Medal (GVI)
Malaya
2/LT. P.C. JONES.
13/18
H.
£275
Commissioned 2nd
Lieutenant 28 June
1952 Regular Army
National Service
Officer.
January 1953 serving
with 'C' Squadron
13th/18th Hussars in
Malaya.
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Trooper
R. Knaggs
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General
Service Medal (QEII)
Malaya / Arabian Peninsula
22820521 TPR. R.
KNAGGS 13/18 H
(REPLACEMENT).
General
Service Medal
Borneo
/ South
Arabia
22820521
TPR. R.
KNAGGS. QDG.
UN
Cyprus Medal
13th/18th
Royal Hussars;
'B' Squadron
were in Aden
in 1957 and
went back to
Malaya in 1958
as an armoured
car unit. He
then
transferred to
the Queen's
Dragoon Guards
and 1959 'B'
and 'C'
Squadrons
deployed to
Borneo and to
Aden 1966-67.
It is not
known who he
was with to
receive the UN
Cyprus as the
QDG did not
serve there
until 1983.
Update: Knaggs
is confirmed
to be with 'B'
Squadron
13th/18th in
1955 but is
gone by the
end of 1958.
Group of
Three: £450
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Trooper
B. Wattam
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General
Service
Medal
South
Arabia
24086003
TPR. B.
WATTAM. 13/18
H.
£125
With
photograph:
"TPR. B.
WATTAM." on
back is "Tpr.
Wattam.
13th/18th
Hussars. R.R.
5125
(14)
3.81"
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Lieutenant Harold Roy Croft
Royal Engineers
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1939-45 Star
France &
Germany Star
Defence Medal
1939-45 War
Medal
Efficiency
Medal
Territorial
(GVI.
Brit.Om.)
LT.
H.R. CROFT.
R.E.
Copy research.
Harold Roy
Croft was born
in Birkenhead
17 December
1919 and was
an architect
by trade. He
was
commissioned
2nd Lieutenant
"Cadet, from
O.C.T.U." in
the Royal
Engineers 29
December 1940.
Awarded
Efficiency
Medal 18
February 1949.
He died in
Birkenhead 28
June
1977.
Group of
Five: £150
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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: SOLD
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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 |
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 |
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.
£85
Ind.Imp. issue. A gentleman named William
Frederick Henry Mortimer died in Hereford in
1964.
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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 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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Corporal G. Haden
13th/18th Hussars
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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
2524996 CPL. G.
HADEN, 13/18 H.
£75
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Special Constable Kulop Said Nasir
Federation of Malaya Police
Trooper
B. Biddis
13th/18th Hussars
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General
Service Medal (QEII)
Malaya
23147710
PTE. F. ALCOCK.
R.A.O.C.
£65
22772130 SIGMN. A.G.
COOKE.
R.SIGS.
£60
56194 S.C. KULOP
SAID NASIR. F. OF M.
POL.
SOLD
23415604 TPR. B.
BIDOIS. 13/18
H.
£75
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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 £75
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 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 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
A. Cornish
Lancashire Fusiliers
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General
Service Medal Cyprus
23484148 FUS. A. CORNISH. L.F.
£75
The Lancashire Fusiliers served in Cyprus 1956
to 1959.
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Army
Long Service
& Good
Conduct Medal
(QEII) 22285446
GNR. J.C.
EDWARDS.
RA.
£65
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The
Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal
£60
In
box of issue.
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