Medals from the Collection of the late Eric Smith - Part I
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Six: Warrant Officer Class 1 J. R. Stone, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45; U.N. KOREA 1950-54, these unnamed; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp,
Malaya, E.II.R. (853058 W.O. Cl. 2, R.E.M.E.); ARMY L.S.&G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (853058 W.O. Cl. 2, R.E.
M.E.) mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £100-120
John Richard Stone was born on 27 March 1921. He enlisted into the Royal Artillery at Woolwich on 7 January 1936. With the Royal
Artillery he served in the Middle East, October-December 1940; Sudan, December 1940-June 1942 and Italy, June 1942-April 1945.
Stone transferred to the R.E.M.E. in October 1951, and served in Korea, July 1953-November 1954; Singapore, November 1954-April
1955, and Malaya, May 1955-July 1956. He was discharged as a Warrant Officer Class 1 in the R.E.M.E. on 1 December 1961. Sold
with recipient’s Certificate of Service; Soldier’s Record and Pay Book; R.E.M.E. Association Booklet, and associated papers.
With riband bar and three identity disks.
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Six: Corporal W. L. Thorne, Canadian Forces
1939-45 STAR; ITALY STAR; FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR; CANADIAN VOLUNTEER SERVICE MEDAL, with overseas clasp; WAR MEDAL 1939
-45, Canadian issue, silver, all unnamed, CANADIAN DECORATION, G.VI.R. (Cpl. W. L. Thorne) mounted as worn
Five: Telegraphist R. J. Watson, Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve, killed in action, 29 April 1944
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; CANADIAN VOLUNTEER SERVICE MEDAL, with overseas clasp; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, Canadian issue,
silver, all unnamed; CANADIAN MEMORIAL CROSS, G.VI.R. (R. J. Watson, Telegraphist, R.C.N.V.R.) ring suspension, good very
fine (11) £120-160
Corporal Wendell Lamont Thorne and his wife, Maisie Irene Thorne, were killed in a car accident at Petersville, New Brunswick, on 19
September 1958. With copied newspaper cuttings relating to the accident and death.
Telegraphist Reginald John Watson, R.C.N.V.R., was killed in action on 29 April 1944, when the Canadian destroyer Athabaskan was
torpedoed and sunk in action with German destroyers off the coast of Brest. Half her compliment of 240 were lost, the survivors were
made prisoners-of-war. Watson’s body was recovered and was buried in the Plouescat Communal Cemetery, Finistere, France. He was
the son of James and Marie Antoinette Delrue Watson, and husband of Elizabeth Joan McGarry Watson of New York City.
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Six: Private C. C. Clerke, New Zealand Infantry
1939-45STAR;AFRICA STAR;DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS;NEW ZEALAND SERVICE MEDAL, all unnamed; NEW ZEALAND MEMORIAL CROSS, G.
VI.R. (357 Pte. C. C. Clerke)
Five: Corporal M. H. Cotterell, New Zealand Infantry
1939-45STAR;PACIFIC STAR;WAR MEDAL 1939-45;NEW ZEALAND SERVICE MEDAL, all unnamed; NEW ZEALAND MEMORIAL CROSS, G.VI.
R. (68322 Cpl. M. H. Cotterell) this last in case of issue
Five: Lance-Corporal R. A. Kent, New Zealand Forces
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, 8th Army clasp; ITALY STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45; NEW ZEALAND SERVICE MEDAL, all unnamed,
mounted as worn, good very fine and better (6) £120-160
Private Claude Cecil Clerke, New Zealand Infantry, attached H.Q. 4th N.Z. Infantry Brigade, was killed in action in the Western Desert
on 5 July 1942, aged 32 years. He was buried in the El Alamein War Cemetery. He was the son of George Frederick and Gussie Levena
Clerke of Rewa, Wellington.
Corporal Mervyn Henry Cotterell, New Zealand Infantry, was killed/died on 17 February 1944, aged 27 years. He was buried in the
Bourail New Zealand War Cemetery, New Caledonia. He was the son of Charles Richard Cotterell and of Esther Lillian Cotterell of
Moerewa, Auckland. With a quantity of copied research.
Medals to ‘Kent’ with named New Zealand Ministry of Defence medal forwarding slip.
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Five: Lance-Naik Premsing Rana, Gurkha Rifles
1939-45 STAR; BURMA STAR; WAR AND INDIA SERVICE MEDALS, officially named (65829 Rfn., 1/6 G.R.); INDIA INDEPENDENCE MEDAL
1947 (65829 P/L/Nk., 5 G.R.)
Five: Havildar Khawaj Ali, Royal Pakistan Artillery
PAKISTAN INDEPENDENCE MEDAL 1947 (38061 Hav., RPA); PAKISTAN GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL, 1 clasp, Kashmir 1948, incorrect
ribbon; 1939-45 STAR; BURMA STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, these unnamed, mounted court style for wear
Four: attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel W. F. Wentworth-Shields, Royal Fusiliers
1939-45 STAR; PACIFIC STAR, clasp, Burma; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf, all unnamed, mounted as worn, very
fine and better (14) £70-90
Medals to ‘Wentworth-Shields’ sold with a Post Office Express Delivery box, dated 11/12/48, addressed to ‘Col. Wentworth Shields,
Federation House, Stoke on Trent, Staffs’
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