CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
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Six: attributed to Petty Officer E. C. Lankester, Royal Navy
1939-45STAR;ATLANTIC STAR;AFRICA STAR, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; BURMA STAR, clasp, Pacific; ITALY STAR;WAR MEDAL 1939
-45, all unnamed
INDIA SERVICE MEDAL (2), unnamed; AUSTRALIA SERVICE MEDAL (VX146202 H. N. Kelly); IMPERIAL SERVICE MEDAL, G.VI.R., 1st issue
(Bertie Charles Norris Saunders) good very fine and better (10) £80-100
Medals to Lankester sold with copied photograph and service details.
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Six: Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander G. N. Cradduck, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
1939-45 STAR; BURMA STAR, clasp, Pacific; ITALY STAR; FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, these unnamed; ROYAL
NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (Ty. A/Lt. Cdr., R.N.V.R.) very fine and better (6) £70-90
1218
Six: Flight Sergeant J. Warner, Royal Air Force
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; PACIFIC STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, all unnamed; ROYAL AIR FORCE L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue
(563243 F. Sgt., R.A.F.) mounted as worn, slight contact marks, very fine £60-80
1219
Five: attributed to Commander John Francis Marryat, Royal Navy
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; WAR MEDAL, M.I.D. oak leaf, all unnamed, mounted court style as worn,
second and third with hole drilled into reverse; together with a court mounted set of five miniature dress medals
EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES VISIT TO BOMBAY 1921, oval bronze medal, obv. head of Edward Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII),
surmounted by Prince of Wales’ feathers; rev. inscribed, ‘Visit of His Royal Highness, Bombay, November 1921’, ref.
Puddester 921.3, very fine, very fine (11) £50-70
The medals with two riband bars in a case, the lid bearing an O.H.M.S. label inscribed, ‘Cgd J. F. Marryat Commander R.N., H.M.S.
“Llandaff”’. Sold with some service details.
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Five: Private A. Woodall, Army Air Corps, late Royal Engineers and Irish Guards
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45, good very fine (5) £100-120
Arthur Woodall, who was born in December 1918, was a Royal Engineer
(Territorial) from May 1937 to July 1939, prior to enlisting in the Irish Guards
(Regular Army) at Sheffield in the latter month. Active service quickly followed as
a member of the 1st Battalion in Norway in April-May 1940, when his unit
formed part of the 24th (Guards) Brigade, North-Western Expeditionary Force.
More or less beyond doubt, therefore, he was present when the Battalion’s
transport the M.V. Chobry, was bombed and sunk by an enemy aircraft on 14
May. In scenes reminiscent of the famous Birkenhead disaster, the Guardsmen
formed up in perfect ranks on the sinking ship’s upper deck, none moving until
ordered to do so by the captain of a destroyer sent to their assistance:
‘When they did move they did so at a deliberate walk, refusing to part with their
weapons ... This superb discipline held good when the Irish Guards arrived back
at Harstad. Many of the survivors were dressed in boiler suits and seamen’s
greatcoats given by the sailors. A few were clad in a single blanket. The wounded
were taken off to hospital at once’ (The Doomed Expedition, The Campaign in
Norway 1940, by Jack Adams refers).
A few days later, Woodall was embarked for service in the British Expeditionary
Force in France, in which theatre of war he remained until as late as 24 June
1940, presumably on attachment to the 2nd Battalion at Boulogne, part of the
20th Guards Brigade.
Transferring to the Army Air Corps in August 1942, he was embarked for North
Africa in January 1943, and remained actively employed in the Mediterranean
theatre of war until returning to the U.K. in January 1944 - a period that almost
certainly witnessed him participating in the 1st Airborne Division’s assault on
Sicily in July 1943, as a member of a Parachute Battalion.
Woodall was finally released in February 1946, while serving in the Reserve
Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, and finally discharged from “B” Reserve in
September 1947.
Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including two wartime portrait
photographs and the recipient’s Regular Army Certificate of Discharge, this latter
confirming all of the above overseas postings and his then entitlement to the
‘1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal’.
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