CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 547
A poignant campaign group of three awarded to Captain P. W. Hunt, Intelligence Corps, late Royal Ulster Rifles, who was killed in action in Malaya on 29 April 1952 when the Land Rover in which he was travelling was ambushed by six enemy bandits DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS 1939-45; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya (Lt. P. W. Hunt, R.U.R.), good very fine (3)
£800-1000
Peter William Hunt was born in Belfast in May 1926 and originally enlisted in the Queen’s Regiment in October 1944, direct from his studies at the University of London. As per his attestation papers, he had earlier served in the Ulster Home Guard. Subsequently commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Ulster Rifles in April 1946, he served as a Platoon Commander in the 1st Battalion in Palestine prior to returning to the U.K. in early 1948. Later in the same year - in September - he transferred to the Intelligence Corps in the rank of Lieutenant, in which capacity he attended a Short Interrogation Course and was embarked for Malaya in the summer of 1950. Tragically, however, as detailed in a security forces intelligence summary, he was shot dead by bandits on 29 April 1952, while serving as a Captain in the north of the country:
‘The Intelligence Officer of North Malaya Sub-District [Hunt] was killed when at least six armed bandits ambushed the Land Rover in which he, a British W.O. and four Tamil civilians were travelling between Maxwell Hill and Taiping. Two Tamil civilians were also killed and the W.O. and the other two Tamil civilians were wounded. The bandits had obviously been lying in wait for the officer and had felled a tree across the road which stopped the vehicle.’
Hunt left a widow, Frances, whom he had married in Singapore in January 1952. He was buried in Kamunting Road Christian Cemetery, Taiping; sold with copied service records.
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Four: Corporal J. T. Davis, Royal Military Police DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, the second privately inscribed, ‘14953649 Cpl. Davis, J. T., Corps of Military Police’; KOREA 1950-53, 1st issue (14953649 Cpl. J. T. Davis, R.M.P.); U.N. KOREA 1950-54, unnamed, mounted court style as worn; together with a mounted set of miniature dress medals, good very fine and scarce to unit (8)
£220-260 With miniature riband bar. 549
Five: Corporal C. B. Fahy, Royal Engineers DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS, unnamed; KOREA 1950-53, 1st issue (14409290 Spr., R.E.); U.N. KOREA 1950-54, unnamed; ARMY L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (14409290 Cpl., R.E.) mounted as worn, contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £ 160-200
550
Six: Staff Sergeant J. F. C. Danger, Royal Engineers DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS, unnamed; KOREA 1950-53, 1st issue (2549261 Sgt., R.E.); U.N. KOREA 1950-54, unnamed; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (2549261 S. Sgt., R.E.); CORONATION 1953, unnamed, mounted court style for display, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (6)
£160-200 With copied roll extract confirming the award of the Coronation 1953 to Sergeant John Frederick Charles Danger, R.E. 551
Four: Lieutenant R. A. McCallum, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS; U.N. KOREA 1950-54, these unnamed; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (Lt., Q.A.R. A.N.C.) minor contact marks, very fine (4)
£160-200 SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE BENEVOLENT FUND 552
Pair: Corporal A. J. Richards, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45, late claims in their card box with Defence Council forwarding slip, extremely fine
Pair: Miss M. L. Cowen, late Women’s Auxiliary Air Force DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45, in their original addressed card forwarding box with Air Council forwarding slip, together with silver R.A.F. sweetheart’s brooch, extremely fine
BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (40546 Pte. E. T. Selwood, Hamps. R.), very fine IMPERIAL SERVICE MEDAL, E.II.R. (Dorothy Eveline Wenham), in its Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine
Together with a mounted group of six miniature dress medals, post-war, including Jubilee 1977 and R.A.F. L.S. & G.C., E.II.R.; a modern Battle for Britain commemorative medal, with R.A.F. clasp, in its case of issue; old white metal commemoratives (2), for Coventry and Lincoln); miscellaneous badges (18), including S.J.A.B., bronze, named to ‘A176888 Leslie Doyle’, with related Royal Life Saving Society Medal, bronze, named ‘Leslie Doyle, April 1939’; a pair of gilt cufflinks and a tin containing assorted R.A.F. buttons (Lot)
£60-70
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