CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 506
Six: Major B. Ponter, Southern Rhodesian Forces, late Suffolk Regiment 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, these unnamed; EFFICIENCYMEDAL,
G.VI.R., 1st issue, Southern Rhodesia (CR160 T/Maj. Bernard Ponter) very fine (6)
£260-300
Bernard Ponter, of Jewish heritage, was born in Cape Town in 1913 and came to Rhodesia in 1930. During the Second World War he served as a Lieutenant with the 7th Battalion Suffolk Regiment in East Africa, Middle East, North Africa and Italy, leaving with the rank of Major. Post war he was at times M.P. for Willowdale and for Highlands North; Salisbury City Councillor; Mayor of Salisbury, 1964-65; a Director of Air Rhodesia; Chairman of the Credit and Finance Corporation; Chairman and Managing Director of Twelve Gods Bakery and Confectionary Ltd.; Commissioner of Oaths.
With copied biographical details and a photocopied photograph of the recipient.
507
Six: Lieutenant-Colonel J. G. Phimister, South African Army Postal Corps
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR;DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf; AFRICA SERVICEMEDAL, ‘Defence’ unnamed, all others officially impressed (45421 J. G. Phimister) good very fine (6)
£150-200 M.I.D. London Gazette 13 January 1944. ‘Capt. J. G. Phimister (45421)’
John George Phimister was born in Wick, Caithness, Scotland on 30 June 1896. Having moved to South Africa, he entered the Army on 22 August 1914, serving as a Signaller in the Natal Telegraph Corps, August 1914-August 1915; then as a Signaller in the South African Signals, October 1915-October 1917; and then as a Sapper in the South African Signals Company R.E., October 1917-June 1919. For these services he was awarded the 1914-15 Star trio of medals.
With the start of the second World War he returned to the services and served as a Serjeant in the South African Army Postal Corps, 6 September-31 October 1940. On 1 November 1940 he received a commission in that unit, being advanced to Acting Lieutenant on 18 December 1940; Temporary Lieutenant on 1 May 1941 and Temporary and later War Substantive Captain on 23 February 1942. He was promoted to Temporary Major in September 1944 and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1945. Served in Egypt, October 1941-June 1943 and August 1943-September 1944 - for which he was mentioned in despatches; in Italy, September-October 1944; Egypt, October 1944-May 1945; Italy, May-October 1945, after which he returned to Egypt and thence home.
With a quantity of copied research including a detailed service history. 508 Ten: Sergeant Nurse Winifred Moore, British Red Cross Society
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, clasp, 1st Army; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE ANDWAR MEDALS, these unnamed; B.R.C.S. MEDAL OF MERIT, enamelled, reverse inscribed, ‘4305 W. Moore’; B.R.C.S. PROFICIENCY CROSS (3), enamelled, for Red Cross Nursing, reverse inscribed, ‘16628 W. Moore’; another, for Red Cross First-Aid, reverse inscribed, ‘17768 W. Moore’; another, for First Aid in Chemical Warfare, with ‘Anti-Gas Training 1939’ clasp, reverse inscribed, ‘ 2605 W. Moore’;
B.R.C.S.MEDAL FOR LONG SERVICE, for 3 Years, with two ‘3 years Service’ clasps, reverse impressed, 6821’, extremely fine (10)
£80-100
With W.W.2 medal forwarding slip; B.R.C.S. War Service Certificate, for service, 3 September 1939-2 September 1943; Proficiency Voucher (2) for Anti-Gas Training, 15 June 1939 and First Aid, 8 November 1940; with three photographs - one of Nurse Moore with her Sergeant’s stripes.
509 Family group:
Four: Lieutenant J. J. Fourie, South African Air Force, late South African Medical Corps, who flew operationally in Baltimores of No. 15 (S.A.A.F.) Squadron in Italy in April 1945 1939-45 STAR, officially inscribed, ‘278713 J. J. Fourie’; AFRICA STAR, unnamed as issued; WAR MEDAL 1939-45; AFRICA SERVICE MEDAL 1939-45, these last two officially inscribed, ‘278713 J. J. Fourie’, good very fine
Pair: Sergeant E. E. Fourie, South Africa Women’s Auxiliary Air Force WAR MEDAL 1939-45; AFRICA SERVICE MEDAL 1939-45, both officially inscribed, ‘F264406 E. E. Fourie’, good very fine (6)
£100-150
Jacobus Jonathan Fourie was born at Fauresmith in November 1922 and enlisted in the Union Defence Force in early 1941. Drafted to the South African Medical Corps, he witnessed active service in East Africa, Abyssinia and Egypt, including lengthy periods on attachment to the R.A.M.C. and Fleet Air Arm - hence his unnamed Africa Star. In August 1943, and probably on account of his time with the F.A.A., he transferred to the South African Air Force. Subsequently qualifying as an Air Observer, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in December 1944 and was briefly attached to No. 15 Squadron in Italy at the war’s end - thus around 10 sorties in the Po River sector, targets including enemy transport. He was released in the rank of Lieutenant at East London in May 1946, having married a South African W.A.F.F., Eunice Edna de Bruyn; sold with copied service record and medal issuance verification.
Sold with the recipient’s original S.A.A.F. Flying Log books (2), namely a pilot’s issue with entries for January-February 1944, endorsed, ‘Flying suspended - below average’; and an Air Observer’s issue, with entries covering the period September 1944 to October 1945, including pasted-down No. 15 Squadron crew photograph; together with an exercise book containing his training notes and an air observation notebook with entries for September to December 1944.
Eunice Edna Fourie was born in Umtata in October 1921 and enlisted in the South African W.A.F.F. in July 1941. Remaining employed in the Union as a Signals Clerk (Traffic), she was advanced to Sergeant in October 1943 and discharged in February 1946; sold with copied attestation and service record.
Also see Lot 542 for the awards to Lieutenant M. P. Emmott,, who was Fourie’s pilot in No. 15 Squadron.
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