MISCELLANEOUS 655
THE ORIGINAL FLYING LOG BOOKS APPERTAINING TO R. H. Gibson, who flew as a Navigator in Canberras during the “Cold War”, comprising R.A.F. Aircrew Flying Log Book (Form 1767, revised June 1955), covering the period May 1959 to July 1966, and another similar (but as revised December 1964), the period August 1966 to May 1968, together with an original photograph and occasional inserts, generally in excellent condition (Lot)
£80-120
Gibson, who attended the R.A.F. Cranwell 1958-61, where he qualified as a Navigator, was posted to No. 88 Squadron in May 1962 and to No. 3 Squadron at the end of the same year, in which latter capacity he served until May 1965, mainly in Germany. His final appointment was with No. 45 Squadron in the Far East from November 1965 to May 1968, when he flew as a Navigator Plotter in Canberra B. 15s out of Tengah, and may have qualified for the Campaign Service Medal 1962 for “Malay Peninsula”.
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AN ORIGINAL FLYING LOG BOOK APPERTAINING TO Master Navigator M. Burgess, Royal Air Force, comprising R.A.F. Aircrew Flying Log Book (Form 1767, revised 1964), with entries covering the period March 1967 to November 1968, largely in Pembrokes and Devons of Transport Command, together with R.A.F. Transport Command A.O.C.-in-C. Commendations (3), all as a Master Navigator and dated 13 June 1959, 11 June 1960 and 1 January 1961, generally in excellent condition (Lot)
£80-100 657
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, belonging to Captain Gilman G. Arnitt, inside page lightly inscribed, ‘G. G. Arnitt, Orwell West, St. Andrews’, containing a fascinating selection of photographs, mostly ‘Navy’ related of the period 1914-18, all with captions, including ‘H.M.S. Laconia at Zanzibar 1915’; ‘the Sultan at Zanzibar 1915’; ‘Testing Seaplanes, Niorora Island 1915’; ‘H.M. Monitor “Severn” alongside H.M.S. Laconia” ’; “Koenigsburg” after action with “Mersey” and “Severn” ’ 1915; ‘Guns captured at “Bagamoya” ’; ‘Execution of Native Spys on Matia Island’; ‘Germans executing Natives’; Boat Race with H.M.S. Talbot at Mikandani, G.E.A.’; post-war photographs include three of the boxer Jack Dempsey in 1922, 68 photographs in total, some photographs have deteriorated, album warped, damaged and repaired; together with more recent loose photographs (4) and the booklet, Random Memories, by Rear-Admiral R. E. S. Bidwell, C.B.E., C.D., R.C.N.; inside inscribed, ‘Captain Gilman Arnitt, with the best wishes of the author Roger E. S. Bidwell’, fair condition £80-100
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HART, LIEUT-GEN. H. G., Hart’s Army List, Militia List and Imperial Yeomanry List ...., July 1905, with summary of war services, John Murray, London, 1905, pages numbered to 852, with original paper covers but rebound half calf, with the front board named ‘Fevyer’; ANON, South African Field Force Casualty List, 1899-1902; boards; The South African War Casualty Roll, The Natal Field Force, October 1899-October 1900, paper covers; South African War, Honours and Awards 1899-1902, Officers and Men of the Army and Navy Mentioned in Despatches, boards, with dustcover; GORDON, MAJOR L. L., British Battles and Medals, 5th Edition, boards, with dustcover, good condition (5)
£40-60 659
MAYO, J. H., Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, 2 vols, London, 1897, lxxxviii + 618pp, 55 plates, other illustrations in text, original red cloth with bevelled edges, t.e.g.; some wear at extremities and backs faded, internally very fine and clean (2)
£40-60 660
MEDAL ROLLS (11), comprising Sutlej Medal 1845-46, for 9th Lancers; India General Service 1854-95, clasp, Pegu, for 18th Royal Irish Regiment, 51st King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and 80th Regiment; clasp, Persia, for 14th Light Dragoons; clasp, North West Frontier, for 1st Battalion, 19th Regiment and 53rd Regiment; clasp, Umbeyla, for 101st Regiment; Afghanistan 1878-80, for 6th Dragoon Guards, 8th Hussars and 1st Battalion, 5th Foot, all typescript style, card covers; together with India General Service Medals 1854-95 and 1894-1902, assorted clasps, for the 93rd Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, this Roberts Publications Limited, card covers, generally in good condition (Lot)
£30-50
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