Campaign Groups and Pairs x558 An unattributed group of four to a member of the Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn; together with two R.A.F. cloth wings, extremely fine (4)
£240-£280
Sold with a portrait photograph of Flight Lieutenant J. E. Baskerville, Royal Canadian Air Force, together with his riband bar, comprising 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas Maple leaf emblem; and War Medal 1939-45.
John E. Baskerville, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, served during the Second World War with 51 Squadron, and was killed in action when his Whitley was shot down off Sylt Island during the Sylt Raid on 19 March 1940, the first R.A.F. attack on a land target. He is buried in Kiel War Cemetery, Germany.
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Six: Petty Officer Stoker R. Downes, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Isis struck a mine and sank in channel ‘T’ off the western sector of the Normandy landing beaches on 20 July 1944
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure, in card box of issue addressed to ‘Mrs R. A. H. Downes, 136 Ham Drive, Plymouth’, good very fine (6)
£100-£140
Robert Downes was a resident of Plymouth, Devon, and served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War as a Petty Officer Stoker in the destroyer H.M.S. Isis. His ship saw heavy action in the Mediterranean where she was involved in the evacuation of allied personnel from Crete in April 1941, after which, while pursuing two Vichy French destroyers, she was severely damaged by a JU.88 Bomber off Beirut, Lebanon. On 19 February 1943 she was involved in the attack and sinking of the German submarine U-562 in the Mediterranean Sea north-east of Benghazi and in 1944, Isis took part in the operations off the Normandy coast following D-Day. On 20 July 1944, she struck a mine and sank in channel ‘T’ off the western sector of the Normandy landing beaches with the loss of 11 officers and 143 ratings. Downes was amongst those killed and is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
Note: The recipient’s Admiralty enclosure slip gives his entitlement to 7 ‘Stars, Medals, Clasps, or Emblems’; presumably he was also entitled to the North Africa 1942-43 clasp.
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Six: Colour Sergeant W. C. F. Fry, Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation II, Royal Marines 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, all privately engraved ‘PO/X 102842 C/Sgt. W. C. F. Fry. M.N.D.O. II’, mounted court-style, good very fine
Three: Attributed to Marine G. Austin, Royal Marines 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, with Admiralty enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr G. Austin, 76 Garden Cottages, Maidenhead, Berks.’, extremely fine (9)
£60-£80
William C. F. Fry was born in Reading, Berkshire, in 1917. He worked as an Electrical Engineer at Reading Railway Works before he was called up in 1941 to serve during the Second War with the Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation II, Royal Marines. Initially based on Hayling Island, this unit was deployed for air and coast defence of the U.K. in 1942-43 before embarking for the Middle East in 1943. Fry served in North Africa and then in Sicily under the command of the Eighth Army. He also saw service in the Low Countries. He died in Reading, Berkshire, in 2002.
Sold with a Royal Marines shoulder title; four original photographs of the recipient wearing his medals in later life; and copied research.
561 Five: Captain H. P. Forshaw, Royal Artillery, who was killed in action during fighting in Italy on 10 September 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 with address label torn off, extremely fine (5)
£100-£140
Henry Peat Forshaw, a resident of Hoylake, Lancashire, served in the Second World War as a Territorial officer in the Royal Artillery. He first saw action with the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940 and was evacuated from Dunkirk. He later served in North Africa and Italy with the 1st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, who were assigned to the 4th Indian Infantry Division. He was killed in action on 10 September 1944 during heavy fighting to break into the Gothic Line defences in the Italian mainland. He is buried in Montecchio War Cemetery, Italy.
562 Six: Bombardier A. W. Davidson, Royal Artillery
1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 copy clasp, 8th Army; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal,
G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (864993. Bmbr. A. W. Davidson. R.A.) mounted as worn, minor official corrections to last, very fine (6)
£50-£70
Austin William Davidson was born in 1913 and attested for the Royal Artillery in 1937. He served during the Second War as a Sergeant-Fitter with the 299th Battery, 75th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery as part of the 51st Highland Division and took part in the bitter fighting at St. Valery-en-Caux, France in 1940 before succeeding in escaping the German encirclement and arriving back in England via Le Havre and Cherbourg. In April 1950, Davidson, together with two men of the 5th Gordon Highlanders who had both been taken prisoner at St. Valery, were involved in the transit to France of the Aberdeen granite used for the memorial to the fallen of the 51st (Highland) Division which was then erected at St. Valery. Apropos of this The Aberdeen Press and Journal of 14 April 1950 reported the following:
‘Two lorries loaded with the 51st (Highland) Division memorial and the two granite pillars for the gateway to the military cemetery at St. Valery-en-Caux left the yard of John Fyfe, Ltd., Seaforth Road, Aberdeen, yesterday on the first stage of the journey to France. The memorial, which weighs fifteen tons and will be erected on the cliffs at St. Valery, was placed on one vehicle, and the other was loaded with granite setts for the base of the monument, the two pillars, and the gate carved from oak grown at Aboyne. The drivers of the lorries are Mr Alexander Duncan, 62 Abbotswell Crescent, Kincorth and Mr Austin Davidson, 26 Causeway-end, with Mr Alexander Sim, traffic manager of British Road Services Unit B 53, in charge. The three men took part in the bitter fighting at St. Valery in 1940, while serving with the 51st (Highland) Division. Mr Sim and Mr Duncan were captured and spent five years in captivity.’
Davidson transferred to the Z (T) reserve on 19 January 1946 and later served with the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers from 1 October 1951. He died in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire in 1996.
Sold with a Royal Artillery shoulder title.
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