CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 1031
Six: Battery Quartermaster Sergeant R. H. Lyon, Royal Artillery 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE ANDWAR MEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf, these unnamed and gilded; EFFICIENCY MEDAL,
G.VI.R. 1st issue. Territorial (1473451 B.Q.M.S., R.A.) mounted court style for display, good very fine (6)
£100-140
M.I.D. London Gazette 23 May 1946. ‘... in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Mediterranean theatre.’
Reginald Hugh Lyon was born on 6 December 1911. A Bank Clerk by occupation, he enlisted at Chelsea on 24 April 1939. As a B.Q.M.S. he was discharged from the 610 Regiment R.A. (London Scottish) in October 1945.
With original Soldier’s Service and Pay Book (Damaged); Soldier’s Release Book; M.I.D. Certificate in envelope; medal forwarding slip; M.I.D. emblem forwarding slip (2); War Office letter, dated 4 October 1938 registering Lyon as a candidate for a commission in the Somerset Light Infantry; Army Form D.406 Notice to an Officer on the Unemployed List or Reserve Class “Z” List, dated 1 October 1951; sundry other letters and a fine studio photograph of the recipient in uniform.
1032 Seven: Serjeant C. J. Bickerton, Royal Signals
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; BURMA STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, these unnamed; EFFICIENCY MEDAL,
G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (2570697 Sjt., R. Signals) mounted as worn, good very fine (7)
£60-80 1033
Five: attributed to Lance-Corporal J. Matafwali, Northern Rhodesia Regiment 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; BURMA STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, all unnamed
Four: attributed to Gunner C. W. Greaves, Royal Artillery 1939-45 STAR; FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, all unnamed
Three: attributed to Private E. Ducker, Pioneer Corps 1939-45 STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, all unnamed, mounted as worn, nearly very fine and better (12)
Medals to Matafwali with copied certificate of service - showing service in Japan, Italy, Somaliland and Northern Rhodesia.
Medals to Greaves with original Soldier’s Release Book, medal forwarding slip, War Department driving permit; Army Record of Service Card and Certificate of Transfer to the Reserve. Greaves was a former Police Constable, who served in the 29th Field Regiment R.A., 18 May 1944-13 February 1947.
Medals to Ducker with original Soldier’s Service and Pay Book and other papers. Ernest Ducker was born on 19 November 1912. A Steward by occupation, he enlisted into the Territorial Army at Beverley on 20 March 1936. Served in the Pioneer Corps; awarded a Gold Wound Stripe on 20 April 1944.
1034 Five: Serjeant M. Rees, Auxiliary Territorial Service
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, clasp, 8th Army; DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf, these unnamed; EFFICIENCYMEDAL, G. VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with 2nd and 3rd Award Clasps (W.18079 Sjt., A.T.S.) mounted for wear, generally good very fine (5)
£60-80 M.I.D. not confirmed. 1035 Five: Stoker Petty Officer R. A. Lane, Royal Navy
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, clasp, North Africa 1942-43 (loose); ITALY STAR; WAR MEDAL, M.I.D. oak leaf, these unnamed; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C.,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (KX.79863 S.P.O., H.M.S. Rothesay) good very fine and better (5) £100-140
M.I.D. London Gazette 12 June 1945.
Mentioned in despatches for services aboard the minesweeper H.M.S. Rothesay for the opening up of Greek ports in the Gulf of Corinth, Patras and Itea. Her commander was the highly decorated Captain Alister Angus Martin, D.S.O., D.S.C. & 2 bars, R.D. With forwarding slip.
1036 Three: attributed to Midshipman Philip Basil Peck, Royal Navy, killed in action, H.M.S. Wryneck, 27 April 1941
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR;WAR MEDAL 1939-45, all unnamed, the medals mounted in a 400 x 222 mm. wooden glass- fronted frame which bears a photograph of the recipient, good very fine (3)
£300-350
Midshipman P. B. Peck, R.N. was killed in action whilst serving on the destroyer H.M.S. Wryneck, 27 April 1941. The Wryneck, in company with the Diamond took off some 700 soldiers from the transport ship Slamat which had been bombed and set on fire in the Gulf of Nauplia on 26 April 1941 during the evacuation of British troops from Greece. The next day both destroyers were bombed and sunk by German dive bombers. The loss of life was heavy; out of a total of some 950 men - the crew of two ships and the rescued soldiers, only about 50 were saved.
With a long letter from Philip Peck, aboard H.M.S. Wryneck, to Rodney M. Peck, dated 15 April 1941; with envelope addressed to ‘R. M. Peck, St. Mary’s Hospital, London, W2’, with the notation, ‘Recd 5/5/’41’; together with one group photograph of naval cadets including Philip Peck, and five other photographs of Peck (3) and ships (2). Also with a typed account of the evacuation from Nauplia.
See lots 1180 and 1197 for medals to other members of the Peck family.
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