CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
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Seven: Petty Officer Airman J. G. Bignall, Royal Navy
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR; BURMA STAR; ITALY STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf, these unnamed; ROYAL
NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (F.55091 P.O. Air., H.M.S. St. Vincent) mounted as worn, slight edge bruising, very
fine and better (7) £70-90
M.I.D. not confirmed.
H.M.S. St. Vincent was a boys training establishment at Gosport, 1927-66. During the war it was taken over for the training of Air
Branch Officers.
725
Seven: Shipwright Artificer 2nd Class P. C. E. Millard, Royal Navy
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; PACIFIC STAR; ITALY STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, these
unnamed; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (MX.53358 Shpt. Art. 2, H.M.S. Warrior) official correction to ship’s
name, good very fine (7) £120-160
H.M.S. Warrior was a Colossus Class light aircraft carrier, which was launched in 1944 and served with the Royal Canadian Navy,
1946-48. Sold to the Argentine Navy in 1959 and renamed Independencia.
With two postcard photographs of the Warrior, one dated 24 February 1954.
726
Six: Leading Seaman T. Armstrong, Royal Navy
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; ITALY STAR; BURMA STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, these unnamed; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R.,
1st issue (J.111121 L.S., H.M.S. Emperor) minor contact marks, very fine and better, scarce (6) £100-140
H.M.S. Emperor was an U.S.A. escort carrier, leased to the U.K. during 1943-46. The ship had battle honours for ‘Atlantic 1943-44’,
‘Norway 1944’; ‘Aegean 1944’; ‘Normandy 1944’; ‘South France 1944’; ‘Malaya 1945’, and ‘Burma 1945’. She was returned to the U.
S.A. in 1946 and sold for scrapping in the same year.
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Six: Petty Officer A. W. Mitchell, Royal Navy
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR, clasp, France and Germany; AFRICA STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, these unnamed; NAVAL GENERAL
SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (D/JX.166738 P.O., R.N.); ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (JX.166738P.O.,
H.M.S. Orion) contact marks, nearly very fine (6) £120-160
H.M.S. Orion was the name of the Reserve Fleet at Devonport.
728
Six: Acting Sailmaker L. J. F. Debenham, Royal Navy
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; BURMA STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45; CORONATION 1953, these unnamed; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., E.
II.R., 1st issue (JX.768108 A/Slmr., H.M.S. Centaur) official correction to number, mounted as worn, some contact
marks, nearly very fine and better (6) £100-140
H.M.S. Centaur was a Centaur Class aircraft carrier, launched in 1947 and scrapped in 1970.
729
Five: Regulating Petty Officer G. F. Woodhams, Royal Navy
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, these unnamed; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue (M.39908
R.P.O., H.M.S. Ganges); ROYAL LIFE SAVING SOCIETY MEDAL, bronze (G.F. Woodhams, Aug. 1922) last fine; others very fine
(6) £80-100
H.M.S. Ganges was a training establishment based at Shotley, 1905-76. A ‘Regulating Petty Officer’ is a rank in the Royal Navy Police
(formerly the Royal Navy Regulating Branch).
730
Four: attributed to Temporary Sub-Lieutenant Alfred Salisbury, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, killed/died, 10 August
1944
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA; WAR MEDAL, all unnamed, medals nearly extremely fine (7) £100-140
Sub-Lieutenant (A) Salisbury, R.N.V.R., died/was killed on 10 August 1944, aged 23 years, whilst serving on H.M.S. Trumpeter. His
name is commemorated on the Lee-on-Solent Memorial. He was the son of William and Mary Ann Salisbury and husband of Brenda
May Salisbury.
H.M.S. Trumpeter was an U.S.A. escort carrier, leased to the U.K. during 1943-46. She had battle honours for ‘Atlantic 1943-44’;
‘Arctic 1944-45’, and ‘Norway’ 1945.
Medals in card forwarding box, this faintly addressed to ‘... Thomas Bryant’? of Gillingham, Kent. With (damaged) condolence slip
named to ‘Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (A) Alfred Salisbury. R.N.V.R.’; together with Fleet Air Arm sweetheart brooch, silver and enamel;
F.A.A. cloth wings, F.A.A. (mothed and damaged) shoulder board and a group photograph.
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