CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 826
Three: Private T. J. Hopkins, Welch Regiment 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR;WARMEDAL 1939-45, each privately impressed, ‘3911847 Pte., 1st Bn. Welch Regt.’, mounted for wear
Pair: Driver F. W. G. Drower, Royal Army Service Corps 1939-45 STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, each privately impressed ‘T58371 Dvr F W G Drower RASC’, mounted for wear
Pair: T. J. Whittaker, Monmouth Home Guard DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, each privately engraved, ‘1282 T. J. Whittaker, C Coy 2 Monmouth Bn HG’
COPIES (2): Victoria Cross; Distinguished Flying Cross, E.II.R.; BRITISH MINIATURE MEDALS (10), including: Air Force Medal, E.II. R. (2); British Empire Medal (2), E.II.R.; BADGES (3); plus a quantity of ribbon, generally very fine and better (lot) £50-70
Medals to ‘Whittaker’ in forwarding box addressed to ‘Mr W. H. J. Whittaker, 51 Marshfield Street, Newport, Mon. 827 Four: Signalman A. J. Fletcher, Royal Corps of Signals
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR;WARMEDAL 1939-45, M.I.D. oakleaf, unnamed, extremely fine (4)
£60-80 M.I.D. London Gazette 24 June 1943.
With original M.I.D. Certificate and envelope addressed to ‘2591345 Signalman A. J. Fletcher, Royal Corps of Signals’; with a portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform and the medal forwarding slip.
828
Four: attributed to D. Hochfelden, South African Forces
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR;WAR AND AFRICAN SERVICE MEDALS, all officially named (74876 D. Hochfelden) nearly extremely fine (4)
£30-40 With Union Defence Forces medal forwarding slip. 829 Five: Wing Commander W. A. W. Lankshear, Royal Air Force
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, these unnamed; together with WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF TURNERS MEDAL, reverse inscribed, ‘W. A. W. Lankshear, Freedom 1965, Livery 1965’, 32mm., silver, hallmarks for London 1959, complete with brooch bar; CITY & GUILDS
M.C.C.MEDAL, 42mm., bronze and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘Littlehampton Trial 1930 W. A. Lankshear’, in Fattorini, Birmingham case of issue, extremely fine (7) £100-140
William Alfred Wallington Lankshear attained the degree of
B.Sc. and the associateships: A.C.G.I., A.M.I.C.E.,
A.I.Mech.E. He was granted a commission in the R.A.F.V.R. Administrative and Special Duties Branch as a Pilot Officer for the duration of hostilities on 6 September 1940. He transferred to the Technical Branch in February 1941 and was promoted to Flying Officer in September 1941. In July 1943 he was advanced to Temporary Flight Lieutenant and in August the same year he was confirmed in that rank. Admitted to the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Turners, 27 May 1965 and granted the Livery on 6 October 1965.
W.W.2 medals with card forwarding box addressed to ‘W/Cdr. W. A. W. Lankshear, “Felbrigge”, Downs Side, Belmont, Surrey’; with forwarding slip. Together with copied gazette extracts and other research.
830
Five: attributed to Gunner E. H. Smart, Royal Artillery, late Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, all unnamed, good very fine (5)
£40-60
Edgar Hudson Smart was born in 1922. He served in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, June 1940-August 1941; R.A.O.C., August- December 1941; Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, December 1941-June 1944, and R.A.C., June 1944-October 1946. Then in the Territorial Army he served with the Green Howards, May 1947-May 1952 and Royal Artillery, May 1952-July 1954. Smart enlisted into the Royal Artillery (Regular Army) at York on 14 July 1954, serving in the B.A.O.R., November 1958-April 1964 and Hong Kong, August 1964-September 1966. Latterly employed as a Battery Storesman, Smart was discharged at his own request on 16 June 1971.
With recipient’s Regular Army Certificate of Service which confirms the above medals.
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