CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 898
Five: Private J. Dunn, South Lancashire Regiment and Royal Engineers 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45, good very fine
Pair: Craftsman V. S. Howard, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (7)
£60-80
John Dunn was born in 1918 and attested for the South Lancashire Regiment at Liverpool on 11 April 1939. He proceeded to France with the British Expeditionary Force on 16 May 1940, returning on 31 May 1940. He remained in England and was transferred to the Royal Engineers on 5 February 1942. His next posting was to North Africa where he served with 1014 Port Operating Company as a Stevedore and then on administrative duties. He returned to England on 9 April 1946 and was discharged from further service on 15 July of that year, after 7 years and 96 days’ service.
Sold with the recipient’s Regular Army Certificate of Service Red Book; Soldier’s Release Book; a photographic image of the recipient; and a Royal Engineers Cap Badge.
Vincent Summers Howard was born on 18 April 1906 and attested for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps at Woolwich on 20 March 1941. He transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers on 1 October 1942, and was discharged on 21 January 1946.
Sold with the Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Record of Service; National Registration Identity card; and a photograph of the recipient.
899
Five: Lieutenant G. St. A. Vivian, Royal Engineers, attached Bengal Sappers and Miners, who was killed in action at Orsara, Italy, 25 October 1944
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, 1 clasp, 8th Army; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Dr. C. St. A. Vivian, “The Glen”, Plantation Road, Leighton Buzzard, Beds’, extremely fine (5)
£140-180
Graham St. Aubyn Vivian was born in 1922, the son of Dr. Charles St. Aybyn Vivian and his wife Mary Elizabeth Vivian, and was educated at Epsom College, where he was a Prefect and a member of the 1st XV. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1940, and was subsequently attached to the 69th Field Company, King George V’s Own Bengal Sappers and Miners, from 28 February 1944. He was killed in action on 25 October 1944 during two days heavy fighting for Orsara, and is buried in Faenza War Cemetery, Italy.
900
Five: Corporal G. M. Smith, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), taken Prisoner of War in Italy on 19 March 1944
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR;DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS 1939-45; together with the recipient’s Stalag VII/A Prisoner of War Identity tag, no. 132914, very fine (5)
£140-180
Matthew George Smith served during the Second World War with the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in North Africa and Italy from 14 November 1943 to 18 March 1944, and was taken Prisoner of War in Italy on the latter date. He was held for the remainder of the War in Germany, primarily at Stalag VII/A, and was repatriated on 15 May 1945. He was discharged on 19 October 1949, and subsequently joined the Territorial Army, with whom he served for a further two years.
Sold with a large archive of letters written from the recipient to his wife whilst a prisoner; various other letters written to the recipient’s wife regarding her husband’s status as a P.O.W.; and letters written to the recipient from his wife; the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Certificate of Transfer to the Reserve; various cap badges lapel badges, and Masonic badges; and various other letters and documents.
901
Five: Sister Miss J. N. Johnston, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service
1939-45 STAR;AFRICA STAR, 1 clasp, 8th Army; ITALY STAR;DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn, very fine (5)
£160-200 M.I.D. London Gazette 13 January 1944: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East.’
Miss Jane Nuttles Johnston was born in South Shields, Co. Durham, on 6 June 1899 and trained at Paddington Hospital. She was appointed a Sister in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service on 9 October 1939 and served firstly at No. 7 General Hospital from 17 October 1940, before going out to the Middle East on 9 March 1941, serving in Egypt, the Sudan, the Western Desert, Italy, Austria, and Germany. For her services in the Middle East, much of it spent with the 8th Army, she was Mentioned in Despatches. Her final posting was at the British Military Hospital in Hamburg. She relinquished her commission on 15 March 1954, and was granted the honorary rank of Sister.
Sold with the recipient’s Mention in Despatches Certificate, this glazed and framed, with War Office enclosures; Letter of congratulations on the ‘Mention’ from Katharine Jones, Matron-in-Chief, Q.A.I.M.N.S.; copied service records; and a large quantity of copied research.
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