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Four: Lance-Corporal V. S. Summers, Coldstream Guards, who was taken Prisoner of War in North Africa in 1943 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (4)
£100-£140
Victor Stanley Summers, aged 18, from Taunton, Somerset, attested for the Coldstream Guards (no. 2658691) on 5 December 1938. During the Second War, he served with the M.E.F. from 16 December 1942, until captured on 16 March 1943. He spent the rest of the War as a Prisoner of War, initially in Italy, then VIIC, Sagan, Germany, until October 1943. Between October 1943 and February 1945 he was at Breig and Breslau Working Camps, and then at IVB Muhberg from 23 February until his release on 6 April 1945.
Sold with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Regular Army Certificate of Service; Soldiers Release Book; Driving Licences; Identity Cards; two photographs of Summers with other Guardsmen in dress uniform, and another as a P.O.W.; other documents; and copy of P.O.W. questionnaire.
375
Five: Attributed to Private C. Treweek, Royal West Kent Regiment
1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, unnamed as issued; together with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; and Soldier’s Release Book, good very fine (5)
£40-£50
376
Five: Private S. J. M. Ward, Royal Army Medical Corps
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. S. J. Ward, 86A Hednesford Rd, Cannock, Staffs.’; together with the recipient’s Dunkirk Medal, good very fine (6)
£60-£80
Stanley James Mansfield Ward was born in Rugeley, Staffordshire on 8 November 1918, and attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps on 1 November 1939. He served with the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France in 1940, prior to the retreat from Dunkirk, and then with the 16th British General Hospital, Middle East Forces, in North Africa and the Middle East.
Sold with the recipient’s identity tags and various R.A.M.C. cap badges, buttons, and other unit insignia; Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Soldier’s Release Book; named Certificate for the Dunkirk Medal, together with various Dunkirk Veterans Association letters and ephemera; a selection of Wartime Christmas cards and other letters to the recipient’s wife; the recipient’s baptism Certificate, glazed and framed; a portrait photograph of the recipient, glazed and framed; a coloured portrait of the recipient, glazed and framed; a portrait photograph of the recipient with his wife on their wedding day, glazed and framed; and various other ephemera.
377
Six: Major R. P. Hughes, Royal Army Pay Corps
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (Capt. R. P. Hughes. R.A.P.C.) generally very fine (6)
£180-£220
Raymond Percival Hughes was commissioned Second Lieutenant from Cadet, in the Royal Corps of Signals in September 1941. He advanced to Lieutenant in March 1947, and subsequently as Captain and Paymaster in the Royal Army Pay Corps in May 1954. He advanced to Major in July the following year.
Sold with Commission appointing R. P. Hughes a Lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals, dated 14 March 1947.
378
Five: Police Inspector W. R. Wardle, late Flight Lieutenant, Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Inspr. William R. Wardle) mounted as worn, good very fine (5)
£80-£120
William Russell Wardle was born in 1923. During the Second War, he is noted in the January 1944 R.A.F. List as serving as a Flight Lieutenant.
379
Four: Police Constable S. Roebuck 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; War Medal 1939-45; Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Const Stanley Roebuck) mounted as worn, good very fine
Five: Police Sergeant W. A. T. Elms 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Sergt. William A. T. Elms) mounted as worn; together with a Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police badge, nearly extremely fine (9)
£100-£140 380 Five: Captain R. A. Deaves, Indian Army and Royal Corps of Signals
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. E. Asia 1945-46 (Capt. R. A. Deaves. R. Sigs.) generally very fine or better (5)
£140-£180 M.I.D. London Gazette 19 September 1946 (Burma).
R. A. Deaves received an Emergency commission in the Indian Army on 26 November 1942. Promoted to War substantive Lieutenant in May 1943, advanced to Temporary Captain in February 1944, and served with the Royal Corps of Signals. As a Temporary Captain with the 23 Indian Divisional Signals he served in South East Asia, October 1945-September 1946 qualifying him for the G.S.M. and clasp.
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