Campaign Groups and Pairs
By 19th April, 1st Commando Brigade had reached Lunenberg and prepared for its final operation, the crossing of the river Elbe and the advance beyond to Neustadt. Reaching there on 3 May, No. 6 Commando was the first to arrive and began sorting out the dead and the survivors of the prison ship Cap Arcona that had been attacked by the RAF by mistake whilst moored in the Bay of Lübeck. The following day, 4th May 1945, Brigadier Mills-Roberts took the surrender of Field Marshal Milch and all of the German troops under his command. In June 1945 Lillico is noted as having returned to work directly under Staff Officer Royal Engineers for No. 1 Commando Brigade, being based at East Grinstead in Sussex, and then left this employment on 19 July 1945, and was most probably demobilised when the Army Commando’s were disbanded in late October 1945.
Lillico was a Life Member of the Special Service Brigade Old Comrades Association from 19 August 1943 onwards, he being then a Sergeant at the time of his appointment.
Sold with the following related original documentation: Old Comrades Association of the Special Service Brigade Life Membership Card, dated 19th August 1943; original pair of woven Commando dagger shoulder titles; original single woven ‘Commando’ shoulder title; Royal Engineers cap badge, King’s crown; photograph of recipient wearing Sergeant’s stripes together with wife, tunic shows him wearing the ’Special IV Service’ shoulder title, indicating service with 4th Commando; another photo of recipient in the rank of Lance Corporal; telegram dated 8th March 1941 and sent to his wife / mother in which he states ‘Home safe from Lofoten Islands letter following’; telegram dated 21st August 1942 and sent to his wife / mother in which he states ‘Back ok Grand Scrap’, with the date of this indicating that Lillico took part in the Dieppe Raid which occurred on 19th August 1942; photograph taken when on active service, recipient identified by a ‘x’ and the reverse annotated ‘we built this bridge over a river’; newspaper cutting titled ‘Norway Hits back’ which details the Commando raid on the Lofted Islands;newspaper cutting titled ‘1st Commandos Great Record - Stormed 4 rivers in 5 weeks’, and detailing 1st Commando Brigade’s storming and crossing of the four main German rivers in five weeks - Rhine, Weser, Aller and Elbe; a German Eine Rentenmark bank note; 1st Commando Brigade Headquarters Part 1 Orders as issued by Captain H.R. Muir Beddall, dated 31st March 1945, and containing Dempsey’s message to the brigade congratulating them on their part in the crossing of the Rhine; aerial photograph of one of the German rivers which was crossed, dated 5th September 1944 - indicating the River Rhine; two aerial photograph of one of the German rivers which was crossed, both dated 25th April 1945 - indicating the River Elbe; Letter on 1st Commando Brigade headed paper, detailing the service of Lillico, dated 19th July 1945; newspaper cutting dated 26th October 1945, titled: ‘Last of the Green Beret Commando men to disband’; Army Council Campaign Medal Award Slip confirming entitlement to ‘4’ awards.
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Five: Lance-Corporal W. Newsome, Royal Engineers, late East Yorkshire Regiment, who landed in North West Europe on D-Day
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Canal Zone (22236110 LCpl W Newsome RE) about extremely fine (5)
£240-£280
Wilfred Newsome was born on 28 June 1904, an attested for the East Yorkshire Regiment at Hull on 1 September 1922. He served with the 1st Battalion in Egypt, China, and India from 4 September 1925 to 28 January 1930, and transferred to the Reserve on 13 February 1930. He was discharged on 31 August 1934, after 12 years’ service. Following the outbreak of the Second World War he re-enlisted in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps at Hinkley, Leicestershire, on 24 April 1941, and transferred to the Royal Engineers on 4 May 1943. He served with them during the Second World War in North West Europe from 6 June 1944 (D-Day) to 29 October 1945, and was transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve following the cessation of hostilities. He re-enlisted again for the Royal Engineers on 18 October 1948, the day after his discharge from the Reserve had become effective, and served with them in Egypt and in the Canal Zone from 11 October 1950 to 9 January 1953. He was finally discharged at Brighton on 12 February 1953, after a total of 23 years and 319 days’ service, in both the Regular and Reserve forces.
Sold with the recipient’s two Regular Army Certificate of Service red books; Soldier’s Release Book; Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Discharge Certificate; and Royal Engineers Old Comrades’ Association Membership Book.
1057 Six: Private T. F. Burgon, Middlesex Regiment
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (4279107. Pte. T. F. Burgon Mx.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, mounted for wear, generally very fine or better (6) £140-£180
1058 Seven: Warrant Officer Class I E. J. Wicks, Royal Army Service Corps, late London Regiment
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (6527629 W.O. Cl.1. E. J. Wicks. R.A.S.C.); Coronation 1953; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (T/6527629 W O Cl 2 E. J. Wicks. R.A.S.C.) number and unit officially corrected, mounted as worn, very fine (7)
£100-£140
Edward Wicks was born in Lambeth on 12 September 1912. He attested for the London Regiment and later transferred to the Motor Transport Department of the Royal Army Service Corps. He died in Hillingdon, Middlesex, in 1975.
1059 Five: Private W. Pike, Army Catering Corps
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal,
G.VI.R., 2nd issue (5613471 Pte. W. Pike. A.C.C.) mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s riband bar, good very fine (5) £70-£90
Sold together with a Liberation of Norway Certificate inscribed ‘The People of Norway wish to thank Pte. W. Pike, A.C.C. of the British Armed Forces for your valuable services in Helping to Restore Freedom to our Land’, and signed (in facsimile) ‘Olav’ and dated Oslo, December 1945.
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Seven: Trooper C. B. Rushton, Lord Strathcona’s Horse, late Fort Garry Horse and 10th Armoured Regiment, with whom he landed on Juno Beach on ‘D-Day’, 6 June 1944
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with Overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (SB-50085 C. B. Rushton); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (SB_50085 C. B. Rushton) mounted as worn, good very fine (7)
£180-£220
Courtney Banford Rushton attested as a Trooper in the 1st Battalion, The Grey and Simcoe Foresters (which later became the 26th Army Tank Regiment) at Haileybury, Ontario, on 20 June 1940. He transferred on break up of the regiment and landed during the Normandy landings on D-Day, 6 June 1944, with the 10th Armoured Regiment. He was discharged in Toronto on 6 October 1945, but subsequently re-attested as a Trooper into the Fort Garry Horse on 18 May 1951. He served during the Korean War on attachment to ‘B’ Squadron, Lord Strathcona's Horse, and was discharged on 8 July 1953.
Sold with copied service papers.
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