Campaign Groups and Pairs 1047 Seven: T. Fleck, Canadian Forces
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, lacking Overseas Service Bar; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (SM 103090 T. Fleck); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (SM 103090 T. Fleck) mounted as worn, very fine (7)
£100-£140 1048
Four: Attributed to Leading Aircraftman C. W. F. Hitchings, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. J. Hitchins, 15 Islingwood Place, Brighton 7, Sussex’, extremely fine
Pair: Attributed to A. Vassallo, Royal Air Force Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, with Air Council enclosure and medal enclosure slip, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘A. Vassallo Esq., 15 Tawfik Street, Cairo, Egypt’, good very fine (6)
£60-£80
Charles Walter Frank Hitchings was born in Brighton, Sussex, on 27 September 1915, and attested for the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 29 January 1940. He served during the Second World War on full-time service from 25 June 1940 to 29 November 1945, in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany as a Gunner with 2713 Squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment, and was released on 20 February 1946.
Sold with the recipient’s Royal Air Force Service and Release Book; Attestation Paper; Leave Pass; Royal Air Forces Association Membership card; and R.A.F. Regiment cloth insignia.
1049 Four: Corporal F. Daniels, Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Bomb & Mine Clearance 1945-49 (Cpl F Daniels (1474471) RAF) last a later issue, about extremely fine and rare (4)
£200-£240
Note: A single General Service Medal 1918-62 with clasp Bomb & Mine Clearance 1945-49 named ‘1474471 L.A.C. F. Daniels, R.A. F.’ was sold in these rooms in March 2013.
Sold with a portrait photograph of the recipient, this mounted in a glazed display frame, and a R.A.F. cap badge. 1050
Pair: Gunner R. E. Porter, Maritime Regiment, Royal Artillery, who was killed in action when the S.S. Port Hunter was torpedoed by the German Submarine U-582 and sank 370 miles off Madeira, 11 June 1942
1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, small spot of verdigris to War Medal, otherwise nearly very fine (2)
£50-£70
Reginald Freeman Porter was born in Parkstone in 1914 and served during the Second World War in the 7/4 Maritime Regiment, Royal Artillery. Employed as a D.E.M.S. Gunner in the S.S. Port Hunter, he was killed in action when she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-582 in the Atlantic Ocean 370 miles west south west of Madeira. At the time she was part of Convoy OS-33, en route from Liverpool to Auckland via Durban, with a cargo of ammunition and depth charges. Of her compliment of 91, there were only 3 survivors. Porter is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
Note: Porter would also have been entitled to the Atlantic Star; however, the named Army Council enclosure slip states the number of medals issued as ‘2’.
1051 Four: C. P. Onifrey, Canadian Forces
Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue (SK-14510 C. P. Onifrey); U. N. Korea 1950-54 (SK-14510 C. P. Onifrey) mounted as worn, good very fine (4)
£100-£140 x1052
Three: Captain W. G. Keay, Corps of Indian Engineers Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in their card box of issue with transmission slip addressed to ‘Captain W. G. Keay, Little Drumrossie, Insch, Aberdeenshire’, together with photo ‘Identity Card Army in India’ dated March 1943
Pair: Captain P. M. Minchin, Rajput Regiment Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, together with named card box of issue addressed to ‘Lt. P. M. Minchin, Bonkyl Old Manse, Preston, Duns, Berwickshire’ and transmission slip, extremely fine (5)
£100-£140
William George Keay, born 20 January 1904; 2nd Lieutenant, Corps of Indian Engineers (Transportations) 26 January 1943; War Substantive Lieutenant, 26 July 1943.
Patrick Molesworth Minchin, born 27 August 1920; educated at Charterhouse and Merton College Oxford; Lieutenant, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, attached 15/7 Rajput Regiment; Captain, 9/7 Rajputs. He was afterwards a farmer and member of the Scottish Veteran Harriers Club and competed in World Masters Track and Field championships, Toronto 1974 and Gothenburg 1977. Sold with Army Medal Office letter, dated 15 January 1964, confirming award of medals but not entitled to 1939-45 Star, and a post card photograph of the recipient in uniform.
1053
Pair: Attributed to Gunner G. F. W. Habbishaw, 59 Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery, who was killed when an enemy bomb was dropped on his searchlight sight at Lyndon End, Coventry, on 19 November 1940
Defence and War Medals 1939-45, unnamed as issued, with Army Council enclosure, named to ‘Gnr. G. F. W. Habbishaw’, extremely fine (2)
£50-£70
George Frederick William Habbishaw, a native of Coventry, was born in 1911 and served during the Second World War in 399 Battery, 59 Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery. He was one of two men killed/died of wounds when his searchlight sight at Lyndon End, Coventry, was bombed during a minor German attack on the city; a further three men were wounded. Habbishaw is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Coventry (London Road) Cemetery.
Sold with copied research including the relevant War Diary extracts and photographs of the recipient’s grave. all lots are illustrated on our website
www.dnw.co.uk and are subject to buyers’ premium at 20% (+VAT where applicable)
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