WORLD ORDERS AND DECORATIONS 1105 Six: attributed to Petty Officer 1st Class J. J. Deese, United States Navy
NAVY GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL, with two bronze stars on ribbon; VICTORY MEDAL 1945; KOREAN SERVICE MEDAL, bronze star on ribbon; U.N. KOREA MEDAL; NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDAL, all unnamed, mounted as worn, back of mounting bar inscribed in ink, ‘J. J. Deese’; VIETNAM SERVICE MEDAL, unnamed, ribbons of the mounted group faded and a little ragged, very fine and better (6)
£40-60
James Jackson Deese was born on 1 August 1927. Research indicates that he enlisted into the U.S. Navy in 1945/46 and was a veteran of the Second World War, Korea and Vietnam. He served aboard U.S.S. Gyatt, April 1958-April 1961 and U.S.S. Allen M. Sumner, 1963-64. Petty Officer 1st Class Deese died on 21 September 2007 and was buried in the Barrancas National Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida. With some copied research and copied photographs of the above destroyers.
1106
A pair of medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel Todd Coker, United States Marine Corps NAVY AND MARINE CORPS MEDAL; MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL, both unnamed, nearly extremely fine (2)
£40-60
With award document for the Meritorious Service Medal, awarded to Lieutenant Colonel Todd Coker, U.S.M.C., ‘for outstanding meritorious service from August 1996 to March 1999’., dated 13 May 1999. Together with a copy of the citation for this medal:
‘For outstanding meritorious service while assigned as Battalion Executive Officer, 2d Radio Battalion, from August 1996 to June 1998, and as the Intelligence Collections Manager, G2, II Marine Expeditionary Force, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Atlantic, from June 1998 to March 1999.
1107
U.S.A., LEGION OF MERIT, Officer’s breast badge (Abdul Rahman S. Al Banjan), complete with riband and lapel bars in case of issue; SOUTHWEST ASIA SERVICE MEDAL; with dress miniature and riband bar; MERCHANT MARINE MEDAL; with dress miniature; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MEDAL FOR DESERT SHIELD AND DESERT STORM; with lapel badge; PERSIAN GULF CAMPAIGN MEDAL; Saudi Arabia, COMBAT MEDAL (2) - one complete with dress miniature and riband bar in case of issue; LIBERATION OF KUWAIT MEDAL (2); Kuwait, LIBERATION MEDAL (7), 2nd Grade, base gilt metal; with dress miniature; another, 3rd Grade, silver base metal, in plastic case; with dress miniature; another, 4th Grade (3) different manufacturers - one in Bertoni, Milan case and box of issue; with dress miniature; Egypt, KUWAIT LIBERATION MEDAL, enamelled; Bahrain, KUWAIT LIBERATION MEDAL; U.A.E., KUWAIT LIBERATION MEDAL, generally extremely fine (23)
£160-200 Abdul Rahman S. Al Banjan was a Major-General in the Royal Saudi Arabian Armed Forces.
1108
U.S.A., INDIAN CAMPAIGN MEDAL, unnumbered; SPANISH WAR SERVICE MEDAL 1918, numbered, ‘4526’; MEXICAN BORDER SERVICE MEDAL 1918, numbered, ‘18655’; ARMY DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS, French copy; WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD, MEXICAN BORDER SERVICE MEDAL 1916-17; ORGANISATION OF AMERICAN STATES, MEDAL OF MERIT, for Service in the Dominican Republic 1965; Italy, medals (8) including: MILITARY VALOUR CROSS, V.E.III.; WAR MERIT CROSS, V.E.III.; WAR COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL 1915-18; THIRD ARMY CROSS, enamelled; ITALIAN VOLUNTEERS IN SPAIN MEDAL; REPUBLIC, LONG SERVICE CROSS, for 16 years; Netherlands, METAL CROSS 1830-31, ‘Volunteers’ issue; Poland, MONTE CASSINO CROSS 1944, numbered, ‘29348’, very fine and better (17)
£150-200.
1109
U.S.A., STATE OF WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD, LONG SERVICE MEDAL, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented to Lt. Col. E. G. Meyer, Sig. Sec. 22d Cav. Div. May 25th 1929 by Command of the Governor’, complete with brooch bar, in card box of issue; STATE OF MISSOURI, WAR SERVICE MEDAL 1917-19 (3) - one in card box; PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL GUARD, WAR SERVICE MEDAL, with riband bars, in card box; SWISS-AMERICAN COMMISSION FOR ALLIED INTERNED 1917-18; ANCIENT & HONORABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY OF MASSACHUSSETS, London 1896, 69mm., bronze, obverse, Albert Edward Prince of Wales; AUSTRALIA PEACE MEDAL 1919, silver base metal; ORGANISATION OF AMERICAN STATES, MEDAL OF MERIT, for Service in the Dominican Republic 1965, all bronze except where stated, very fine and better (9)
£90-120.
1110
U.S.A., VICTORY MEDAL 1918 (5) no clasp; another, 3 clasps, Defensive Sector, Ypres-Lys, Meuse-Argonne; another, 3 clasps, Defensive Sector, Aisne-Marne, Oise-Aisne; another, 3 clasps, Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, Oise-Aisne; another, 5 clasps, Defensive Sector, Meuse-Argonne, Oise-Aisne, Aisne-Marne, Champagne-Marne, all official type 2 medals on full-wrap brooch bars, very fine and better (5)
£140-180. 1111
U.S.A., VICTORY MEDAL 1918 (5) no clasp; another, 3 clasps, Defensive Sector, Meuse-Argonne, Ypres-Lys; another, 3 clasps, Defensive Sector, Meuse-Argonne, St Mihiel; another, 5 clasps, Defensive Sector, Meuse-Argonne, Oise-Aisne, Aisne-Marne, Champagne-Marne; another, 5 clasps, Defensive Sector, Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, Aisne-Marne, Montdidier-Noyon, all official type 2 medals, first four on full-wrap brooch bars, very fine and better (5)
£160-200.
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