CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
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Seven: Warrant Officer Class 2 G. E. Fox, Royal Signals, who won a “mention” for operations in Malaya in 1950
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, clasp, 8th Army; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp,
Malaya, M.I.D. oakleaf (2320365 W.O. 2 G. E. Fox, ); ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., Regular Army (2320365 W.O. 2 G. E.
Fox, ), all official replacements, the 1939-45 War stars with large ring suspension and the last two with ‘R.’ stamp to
edge, extremely fine (7) £120-150
Mention in despatches London Gazette 27 April 1951:
‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Malaya during the period 1 July to 31 December 1950.’
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Four: Blumenkranz Moshe, Jewish Brigade
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, together with
his original Jewish Brigade embroidered uniform patch and identity
card, with portrait photograph, extremely fine (4) £200-250
Members of the Jewish Brigade who fought in the Italian and North-West Europe
operations 1944-45, openly wore the above described uniform patches and were
accordingly, with rare exception, executed on the spot if captured.
(Part Lot)
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Five: Driver Albert Cutler, Royal Army Service Corps
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, all unnamed, nearly extremely fine (lot) £100-120
Albert Cutler, by occupation a Painter, was called up for military service on 16 January 1941. He served in the Royal Artillery, January
1941-October 1944 and Royal Army Service Corps, October 1944-March 1946. In June 1941 he sailed from England via the Cape to
the Gulf of Suez aboard H.M.T. Franconia. Served in North Africa, July 1941-September 1943 and thence in Italy.
Sold with the recipient’s hard-backed exercise book with diary entries in ink for the period, 1 June 1941-29 March 1945, concisely
detailing his service in England, North Africa and Italy; a photograph album containing photographs, mostly military, relating to North
Africa, with some other loose photographs; Soldier’s Release Book Class “A”; National Registration Identity Card; medal forwarding
box, addressed to ‘Mr A. Cutler, 20 Stonefield Close, Sheffield 2, Yorkshire’; with forwarding slip confirming the above five medals plus
8th Army clasp (this not with lot); Record of Service Card; Competence to Drive paper certificate; R.A. cap badge; 8th Army cloth
badges (2); unofficial Coronation Medals 1911 (2); riband bar.
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Six: Sergeant E. Aspinall, 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion, Australian Army, who was on active service in Tarakan in May 1945,
when fellow battalion member Corporal John Mackey won a posthumous V.C.
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, clasp, 8th Army; PACIFIC STAR; DEFENCE & WAR MEDALS 1939-45; AUSTRALIA SERVICE MEDAL 1939-45, all
with officially impressed naming in small capitals, ‘NX 54728 E. Aspinall’, together with “Returned Badge”, the reverse
numbered ‘8175’, generally good very fine (7) £250-300
Evan Aspinall was in Melbourne, Victoria in December 1918 and enlisted in the Australian Army at Paddington, New South Wales in
June 1940, when he stated he had earlier seen service in the 21st Light Horse Regiment as a Trooper. Posted to the 2/3rd Pioneer
Battalion in the following month, he was advanced to Corporal in December 1941 and remained actively employed in the same unit
for the remainder of the War, latterly serving in the rank of Sergeant.
The 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion saw much action in North Africa, although Aspinall was hospitalised in the period October-November
1942, and returned to Australia in early 1943. Thereafter, following jungle training, the Battalion was engaged against the Japanese,
being present at the capture of Lae in September 1943, the landings on Scarlet Beach, near Finschhafen, and in further operations on
New Guinea’s northern coast, prior to returning to Brisbane in March 1944.
But further active service beckoned, for in the final months of the War the 2/3rd participated in the Tarakan operations, one detachment
acting as gunners in landing craft at Sadau. Next employed in clearing the enemy from the high ground around the town, the 2/3rd
fought two protracted actions against the well-defended enemy strongpoints “Sadie” and “Helen”, Corporal John Mackey winning a
posthumous V.C. for his superb gallantry in attacking the latter position on 14 May 1945. By the time of the Japanese surrender, the
2/3rd Pioneers wartime casualties had risen to 97 dead and 262 wounded.
Following the War’s end, Aspinall was evacuated by air to Australia suffering from a blood clot, and was discharged in November 1946
while still a patient at 113 Concord Military Hospital. He died in the following year; sold with original named campaign medal
issuance slips and copied service record.
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Seven: Warrant Officer Class 3 W. P. Millan, Highland Light Infantry
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, these unnamed; ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.
VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (3304020 W.O. Cl. 3, H.L.I.) good very fine (7) £80-100
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Five: C. H. Shlise, British Army
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45, in their original addressed card
forwarding box with Army Council issuance slip, extremely fine (5) £20-30
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