CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 908
Five: E. Richards, Royal Air Force 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45, in named Air Ministry card box of issue, addressed to ‘E. Richards, Esq., 11 Heybarnes Road, Small Heath, Birmingham 10.’; IMPERIAL SERVICE MEDAL, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Edward Richards.) in Royal Mint case of issue, edge bruising to Defence Medal, otherwise good very fine
Four: Attributed to F. W. Petts, 8th Army 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, 1 clasp, 8th Army; DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. F. W. Petts, 19 Cantley Road, Hanwell, London, W7’, extremely fine
Four: Attributed to R. Rawston, Merchant Navy 1939-45 STAR; PACIFIC STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45, nearly very fine
One: Attributed to J. E. Marlow, Royal Navy WAR MEDAL 1939-45, in named Royal Navy card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. J. E. Marlow, 37 Barlow Road, Wednesbury, Staffs’, good very fine
WAR MEDAL 1939-45, good very fine (15) Sold with seven photographs showing the sinking of the Graf Spee at Montevido, 18 December 1939. £70-90
Edward Richards, a Higher Grade Postman from Birmingham, was awarded the Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement in 1974 (London Gazette 11 October 1974).
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Five: Sergeant W. G. Beesley, Royal Air Force 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS 1939-45; ROYAL AIR FORCE L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (626002 Sgt. W. G. Beesley. R.A.F.) minor edge bruise to last, very fine
IMPERIAL SERVICE MEDAL, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Ronald George Furzeman) in Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine (6) £60-80
Ronald George Furzeman was born in Plymouth on 5 February 1910 and was employed by the Royal Navy as a Joiner at H.M. Naval Base Devonport. He was awarded his Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement in 1970 (London Gazette 21 April 1970).
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Five: Company Quarter-Master Sergeant W. H. Howe, Essex Regiment, who was taken Prisoner of War following the 2nd/5th Battalion's gallant last stand at Deir-el-Shein,1 July 1942
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; DEFENCE ANDWAR MEDALS 1939-45; EFFICIENCY MEDAL,
G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with Second Award Bar (6006043 Sjt. W. H. Howe, 5-Essex R.) good very fine (5)
£140-180
William Harry 'Bill' Howe, a native of Great Maplestead, Essex, was born on 24 August 1907 and attested for the 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment (Territorials) in October 1925. Mobilised in September 1939, the Battalion was embarked for the Middle East in December 1940 and served in Palestine and Iraq in 1941-42.
‘Deir-el-Shein was a small depression of solid rock covered by 18 inches of sand and 2/5th Essex were dumped there with only their rifle companies - no anti-tank guns, no carriers and certainly no armour … with no explosives to shift rock, slit trenches could only be scraped into 18 inches of sand and afforded no cover from view or protection from shot or shell … At 7 a.m. on 1 July 1942 the German 15th Panzer Division arrived and started to shell the Battalion and launch an all out attack Despite being totally outnumbered this was repulsed with fighting continuing until early afternoon when a sandstorm blew up. Under cover of this 15th Panzer threw all their tanks against the Battalion's pitiful anti-tank defences and, of course, broke through. Fighting still continued area to area until early evening when resistance inevitably ceased with 2/5th Essex completely annihilated - all dead, wounded or captured.' (accompanying article by Major M. C. Portway refers).
Following his capture at Deir-el-Shein on 1 July 1942, Howe was held at Fermo in Italy prior to being transferred to Stalag 4B at Muhlberg, on the Elbe, in September 1943. He was finally liberated in April 1945.
Sold with copied research and photographs.
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Five: Private T. B. Bushby, Royal Army Medical Corps 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45, with lid from card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. T. B. Bushby, Green Gate, Barden Mill, Hexham, Northumberland’; EFFICIENCY MEDAL,
G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (7357199 Pte. T. B. Bushby. R.A.M.C.) in named card box of issue, extremely fine
EFFICIENCYDECORATION,
G.VI.R., 2nd issue, silver and silver-gilt, reverse officially dated ‘1950’, with
G.VI.R. Second Award Bar, reverse officially dated ‘1950’, lacking integral top riband bar, very fine (6)
£100-140 Sold with the recipient’s four card identity tags; and a R.A.M.C. cap badge. 912
Four: Corporal Abbas Neethling, South African Forces 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR;WARMEDAL 1939-45; AFRICA SERVICEMEDAL, all officially named ‘M11521 A. Neethling’, very fine
Four: Private M. F. R. Jonker, South African Forces 1939-45 STAR; ITALY STAR;WARMEDAL 1939-45;AFRICA SERVICEMEDAL, all officially named ‘576290 M. F. R. Jonker’, all heavily polished, initials on first obscured, good fine (8)
£50-70
Abbas Neethling, a Moslem from Salt River, Cape Province, was born in March 1917 and served with No. 5 Company, Motor Transport, South African Forces during the Second World War in North Africa from 31 May 1941.
Marthinus Frederick Rudolph Jonker, of Durban, was born in Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, on 27 September 1925 and served with No. 10 Brigade Signal Company, South African Forces during the Second World War in the Italian theatre from 2 October 1943.
Sold with copied service records for both recipients.
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