CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 444 Five: Attributed to Corporal A. J. Taylor, Royal Army Service Corps
1939-45 STAR;AFRICA STAR, 1 copy clasp, 1st Army; ITALY STAR;DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, nearly extremely fine (5)
£80-120 M.I.D. London Gazette 21 June 1945.
Albert John Taylor was born on 10 October 1908, and attested for the Royal Army Service Corps on 6 March 1941. He served with the R.A.S.C. in North Africa from 18 December 1942, and subsequently in Italy, and was promoted Corporal on 21 November 1944. Mentioned in Despatches, he returned to the U.K. on 20 December 1945, and transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 23 March 1946.
Sold together with the recipient’s M.I.D. Certificate, dated 21 June 1945, in O.H.M.S. envelope, and copied service papers. 445
A scarce campaign group of eleven to Senior Commandant V. T. Bratton, Chief Paymaster of the Rhodesia and Nyasaland Army Pay Corps, late Royal Army Pay Corps and Royal Pioneer Corps, who was M.I.D. for Burma during the Second War
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, 1 copy clasp, 8th Army; BURMA STAR; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE ANDWAR MEDALS 1939-45, M.I.D. Oak Leaf; AFRICA GENERAL SERVICE 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (Lt. V. T. Bratton. R.A.P.C.); Rhodesia, THE DEFENCE FORCES’MEDAL FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE (Sen. Commdt. V. T. Bratton.); Rhodesia, EXEMPLARY SERVICE MEDAL, with Second Award Bar (063672H Sen. Commdt V. T. Bratton); Rhodesia, GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL (Lt Col V. T. Bratton); ZIMBABWE INDEPENDENCE MEDAL 1980 (03943), generally nearly very fine or better (11)
£800-1200 M.I.D. London Gazette 19 June 1946 (Burma)
Vincent Bratton was a native of Durham, England, and served as an Acting Captain in the Royal Pioneer Corps during the Second War. According to family tradition he commanded a prisoner of war camp in Burma, where a Japanese battalion surrendered to him. In a show of honour to him the Japanese commanding officer reputedly presented Bratton with his sword and his boots. He transferred from the Royal Pioneer Corps, and advanced to Lieutenant and Paymaster in the Royal Army Pay Corps, in December 1951.
Bratton relinquished his commission in the Royal Army Pay Corps on recruitment into the Southern Rhodesian Staff Corps (Federal Forces) in December 1954. He advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief Paymaster of the Rhodesia and Nyasaland Army Pay Corps in the 1960’s (President of the Forces Rugby Club from 1962), before serving as Senior Commandant DMM (Paymaster), Guard Force.
Sold with copied research, including two photographic images of recipient in uniform. 446
Four: Leading Aircraftman M. H. Lee, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who died on Malta, 19 June 1944 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, 1 clasp, NORTH AFRICA 1942-43; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDAL 1939-45, extremely fine (lot) £80-120
Maldwyn Herbert Lee was born in June 1916, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Lee, and the husband of Margaret J. Lee of Dafen, Wales. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as Aircraftman Second Class, in April 1941, and advanced to Leading Aircraftman in May 1943. He died 19 June 1944, and is commemorated on the Malta Memorial.
Sold with the following related items and documents: Second War Campaign Medal card box of issue addressed to ‘Mrs M. Jane Lee, 6 Neville Terr., Dafen, Llanelly,
Carm.Shire, S. Wales’; Memorial Scroll named to Leading Aircraftman M. H. Lee, R.A.F., in Ministry of Pensions envelope addressed to recipient’s mother; named Condolence Slip; Royal Air Force Airman’s Service Book, and other ephemera.
447 Five: Air Sergeant M. D. Burger, 5 Squadron, South African Air Force
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; WAR MEDAL 1939-45; AFRICA SERVICE MEDAL, all officially impressed ‘98626 M. D. Burger’; EFFICIENCYMEDAL,
G.VI.R., Union of South Africa (Air Sgt. M. D. Burger - S.A.A.F.) last officially re-impressed, edge nicks, generally very fine (5)
£100-140
Mauritz Dietz Burger was born in Graaff Reinet, South Africa, in August 1901. He attested for the South African Air Force as a Wireless Operator in July 1940, and after carrying out initial training was posted to 5 Squadron, S.A.A.F. (Tomahawks) in Egypt in December 1941. The squadron were initially employed flying anti-shipping patrols, before being re-equipped with Kittyhawks and specialising in a ground-attack role over the Western Desert. He was posted for service with 7 Wing in July 1942, and advanced to Temporary Air Corporal in September 1943.
Burger was posted to HQ W/T Control Station, Waterkloof, Pretoria in October 1943, and advanced to Temporary Air Sergeant in January 1944. He was discharged in October 1945.
448 Six: Lieutenant G. S. Marshall, Royal Marine Reserve
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45; CADET FORCES MEDAL, E.II.R. (Lieut. (S.C.C.) G. S. Marshall R.M.R.) mounted court-style as worn, very fine (6)
£80-120 Sold together with the recipient’s Royal Marines cap badge.
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