CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 532
A fine Second World War and post-war campaign and long service group of six awarded to Warrant Officer K. K. Parkes, Special Air Service (S.A.S.), late Royal Engineers and Malayan Scouts, who was taken P.O.W. on D-Day while attached to 6th Airborne Division
1939-45 STAR; FRANCE ANDGERMANY STAR, the reverse privately engraved, ‘1876661 Tpr. K. K. Parkes, R.E., 3rd Para. Sqn. R. E., 6th A.B. Div., 04-06-1944’; DEFENCE ANDWAR MEDALS 1939-45; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya (1876661 Sjt. K. K. Parkes. R.E.), this with official corrections to number, rank and initials; EFFICIENCYMEDAL, E.II. R., T. & A. V. R. (23920309 W.O. Cl. 2 K. K. Parkes, S.A.S.), generally good very fine (6)
£800-1000
Keith Kitley Parkes was born at Temple Bassall, Warwickshire in February 1924 and enlisted in the Royal Engineers as a boy recruit in March 1939.
In August 1943, he qualified as a parachutist and joined No. 3 Parachute Squadron, R.E., in which unit, as part of 6th Airborne Division, he was deployed on D-Day 6 June 1944. He was posted missing on the same date and was confirmed as a P.O.W. a few weeks later. On his liberation and repatriation from Stalag IVB in late April 1945, he was admitted to Botley’s Park War Hospital.
Remaining in the Army after the War, Parkes was advanced to Sergeant and witnessed active service in 9 A/B Squadron R.E. in Palestine from September 1946 until being invalided home in April 1948 (Medal & clasp); so, too, in Malaya in the period July 1951 to November 1953 (clasp), latterly as a member of the Malayan Scouts (afterwards 22 Special Air Service Regiment).
Having then transferred to the Royal Army Reserve in February 1954, Parkes re-enlisted in the 23 S.A.S. Regiment (Territorials) in Birmingham in May 1962, in which unit he gained appointment as Regimental Quarter-Master Sergeant in January 1965. His subsequent postings included Belgium, Germany and Kenya and he was finally discharged in May 1974. He died at Warwick Hospital in February 2004.
Sold with two original wartime photographs and extensive copied service records.
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Five: Trooper G. H. Jackson, 8th Hussars, late Sherwood Foresters
1939-45 STAR DEFENCE ANDWAR MEDALS, these unnamed; KOREA 1950-53, 1st issue (4976406 Tpr., 8 H); U.N. KOREA 1950 -54, unnamed; together with a DUNKIRK VETERANS MEDAL, unnamed, extremely fine (lot)
£260-300
George Henry Jackson was born on 12 April 1915. A Tractor Driver/Farm Worker by occupation, he enlisted into the Sherwood Foresters at Lincoln on 9 February 1939. With the Sherwood Foresters/Royal Armoured Corps, he served with the B.E.F., September 1939-12 June 1940 and then at Home until service in N.W. Europe, May 1945-January 1946. Transferred to Class ‘B’ Reserve in April 1946, he was recalled in August 1950 and served in the Far East, 11 October 1950-October 1951 with the 8th Hussars. The 8th Hussars were the first tank regiment to take part in the war in Korea and arrived with 39 officers, 689 other ranks and 64 Centurion tanks. He was transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 23 November 1951.
With original Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Regular Army Certificate of Service booklet; Dunkirk Veterans Medal named award certificate; identity certificate; vaccination certificates; leave pass; Second Army Thanksgiving Service booklet; 21 Army Group message of thanks card 1945; certificate of transfer to reserve 1951; photographs of tanks (2); cloth insignia (4); card boxes of issue for the Korea Medals and Dunkirk medal; French ‘On ne Passe Pas’ badge.
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Five: Petty Officer A. A. Meech, Royal Navy, killed in action when the battleship H.M.S. Barham was torpedoed and sunk, 25 November 1941
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR;WAR MEDAL 1939-45, these unnamed; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C.,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (J.96264 P.O., H.M.S. St. Vincent) mounted for wear, slight edge bruising, good very fine (5)
£ 140-180
Aldred Allen Meech was born in Peckham, London on 7 August 1904. He enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in November 1919 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in August 1920. Promoted to Ordinary Seaman in August 1922 and to Able Seaman in December 1923. Appointed to Acting Leading Seaman in June 1932 when on the battleship H.M.S. Warspite and was confirmed in that rank in June 1933 when on the cruiser H.M.S. Hawkins. He attained the rank of Petty Officer in July 1937 when based at Victory I. During the early years of the war he served on the cruiser H.M.S. Berwick. Served on the battleship H.M.S. Barham from 29 November 1940. Saw action on the ship at the battle of Cape Matapan, 27-29 March 1941 and was engaged in the battle for Crete. Petty Officer Meech was killed in action when H.M.S. Barham was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-331 in the Eastern Mediterranean on 25 November 1941. Hit by three torpedoes she capsized onto her port side and shortly afterwards a magazine exploded, destroying the ship. Due to the catastrophic speed at which she sank, 862 officers and men were lost.
With copied service papers and other research - includes two copied photographs of H.M.S. Barham, sinking and exploding.
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