Campaign Groups and Pairs 506
Six: Captain I. C. McGregor, South African Armoured Corps, who was seconded to the British Forces as a Tank Troop Commander 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially named ‘854 I. C.
Mc.Gregor’, mounted as worn, good very fine
Pair: Sergeant A. W. D. Grattan, 1st South West African Infantry Battalion, attached South African Medical Corps War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, both officially named ‘106311 A. W. D. Grattan’, good very fine (8)£70-£90
Ian Corbet McGregor was born in Durban, South Africa on 7 June 1912. He enlisted into the Royal Natal Carbineers on 16 September 1940 serving with the 10th Armoured Car Commando, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 6 May 1941. He was promoted Lieutenant on 11 November 1941, and Captain on 15 November 1943. He was seconded to the British Forces from 25 May 1943, and was posted to 50 Royal Tank Regiment, 3rd Armoured Brigade, as a Tank Troop Commander on 9 September 1943. He relinquished his commission on 31 December 1945, having served in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy earning him the South African ‘Full House’ of 6 Second World War medals.
Alfred William Desmond Grattan was born in Toronto, Canada, on 26 January 1915. A chemist by profession, he attested for the 1st South West African Infantry Battalion on 20 April 1940, and served on attachment to the South African Medical Corps as a Corporal from 22 June 1940, being promoted Sergeant on 18 December 1942. This is his full entitlement.
Sold with copied research. 507
Five: Warrant Officer II S. F. Santy, Royal Canadian Air Force, who after service as a pilot with 407 ‘Demon’ Squadron, was killed when his Hudson III of 200 Squadron crashed at the start of an operation off the West African Coast on 16 September 1942
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, all in card boxes of issue; together with the recipient’s Canadian Memorial Cross,
G.VI.R. (F.S. Pilot F. S. Santy R-70915) in case of issue, with forwarding card, extremely fine (6)
£180-£220
Samuel Ferrier Santy, of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, worked as a reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press prior to the Second War. Enlisting into the Royal Canadian Air Force and qualifying as a pilot with the rank of Flight Sergeant, he joined 407 (Demon) Squadron, R.C.A.F. as part of coastal command in early 1942. Flying Lockheed Hudson III’s, this squadron gained fame for low level attacks on German shipping along the North Sea coast. In August of the same year, Santy was transferred to the 200 Squadron, R.A.F., then serving in the Gambia, West Africa. Again Flying Hudson IIIs, the squadron was tasked with attacking Axis shipping and U-boats in the Eastern Atlantic. On 16 September 1942, Santy’s Hudson (loaded with 4 depth charges) crashed on take-off, killing all four crew members. It was only his second operational sortie with the squadron. Santy was buried in Fajara War Cemetery in the Gambia. He is one of only 10 Canadian war dead buried in this small West African country. He was posthumously promoted to Warrant Officer Class II.
Sold with Santy’s original Operational Wings, by Birks; another silver badge; and copied research. 508
Five: Private B. R. Laurin, Special Force, Royal 22nd Regiment, late Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve, who was wounded in Korea on 25 October 1951
Defence Medal, cupro-nickel; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (SC-850061 B. R. Laurin); U.N. Korea 1950-54, French issue (SC -850061 B. R. Laurin) polished, very fine (5)
£100-£140
Bernard Roger Laurin was born in Timmons, Ontario, on 8 September 1926, and initially served with the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve. He later joined the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment, which was part of the ‘Special Force’, which was the first to arrive in Korea, serving from 4 May 1951, and he was wounded in action on 25 October 1951.
Sold with copied service papers. 509
Four: Sergeant D. C. Macdonald, Canadian Forces Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Forces Decoration, E.II.R. (Sgt D. C. Macdonald) good very fine
1914-15 Star (1013 Pte. A. Mason. P.P.C.L.I.) with brass shoulder title; War Medal 1939-45 (2) (V16964 P. E. Costello; NX100237 A. Sherwin) both officially impressed, very fine and better
Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Canada, unnamed, extremely fine (8) Sold with copied research. 510
Pair: Engine Room Artificer Second Class T. T. Jones, Royal Navy, who was Mentioned in Despatches for the capture of a German ship off the coast of Norway in 1940
War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (D/MX 53731 T. T. Jones. E.R.A.2. R.N. M) last letter in naming erroneously impressed and subsequently crossed-through, nearly extremely fine (2)
£100-£140
M.I.D. London Gazette 7 June 1940: Engine Room Artificer 4th Class Thomas T. Jones, D/MX.33731, H.M.S. Valiant. ‘For good service on the occasion of the seizure of the German Armed Trawler Blankenburg.’
Thomas T. Jones served during the Second World War as an Engine Room Artificer 4th Class in the Royal Navy and was Mentioned in Despatches for his services during the 1st Battle of Narvik, one of only two M.I.D.s awarded to the crew of H.M.S. Valiant on the occasion of the seizure of the German Armed Trawler Blankenburg, which was captured off the coast of Norway on 6 April 1940. This vessel was renamed H.M.S. Recoil and used as an anti-submarine trawler, but later lost on patrol. Jones later served in the post-War Palestine campaign as an Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class
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Alexander Mason was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1886 and was living at Ottawa, Canada when he attested for service with Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry on 25 August 1914. He was wounded in late 1915/early 1916 and re-attested for the same regiment on 18 December 1917.
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