Miscellaneous 737 Memorial Plaque (Cecil Howard Perkins) good very fine £80-£120


Cecil Howard Perkins was born in 1896, the son of Mr C. W. Perkins (the city Organist of Birmingham) of 25 Edgbaston House, Broad Street, Birmingham. He was educated at the Priory, Malvern and King Edward’s School, and employed in the Birmingham City Treasurer’s Department. Perkins enlisted as a Corporal in the 16th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment in November 1914, and was commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant in the Yorkshire Regiment in September 1915. He served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion (entitled to Great War pair), and was killed in action whilst attached to the 21st Light Trench Mortar Battery on the Western Front, 22 July 1918.


Lieutenant Perkins is buried in Les Baraques Military Cemetery, Sangatte, Pas de Calais, France. He is also commemorated on a memorial in Birmingham City Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham.


Sold with portrait photograph of recipient in uniform.


738


Family Group:


Memorial Plaque (2) (Cuthbert Hickman; Frank Henry Charles Hickman) both with three small drill holes at 5, 7, and 12 o’clock, nearly very fine and better (2)


£200-£240


Cuthbert Hickman, the son of Henry and Grace Hickman, of Leytonstone, Essex, was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, Auckland Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and served with them during the Great War. He was severely wounded at Gallipoli in August 1915, and again on the Western Front in June 1916, and died on 12 November 1918, one day after the Armistice. He is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.


Frank Henry Charles Hickman, the son of Henry and Grace Hickman, and the brother of Cuthbert Hickman, attested for the London Regiment at Leytonstone, Essex, and served with the 9th Battalion (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) during the Great War on the Western Front from 4 November 1914. Advanced Sergeant, he was awarded the Military Medal (London Gazette 3 June 1916). He was was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Some, 1 July 1916, on which date the battalion took part in the attack on Gommecourt, and suffered 545 casualties. He is buried at Gommecourt British Cemetery No. 2, France.


739


Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (1033138 Pte. R. Barker) in case of issue, nearly extremely fine Provenance: Spink, September 2001.


£60-£80


Robert Barker was born in Toronto, Ontario, on 6 December 1880 and attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 17 July 1916.


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Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R., edge impressed ‘Specimen (K/4396).’; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue, edge impressed ‘Specimen (K/4396).’, nearly extremely fine (2)


£100-£140


741


General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, South Vietnam, edge of medal impressed ‘Collectors Item’, three small scratches to Queen’s cheek on obverse, otherwise extremely fine


£260-£300


Only 68 South Vietnam clasps to the General Service Medal 1962-2007 were awarded, all to members of the Australian Army Training Team, for the period 24 December 1962 to 29 May 1964.


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Clasp: South Vietnam, extremely fine, scarce


£240-£280


Only 68 South Vietnam clasps to the General Service Medal 1962-2007 were awarded, all to members of the Australian Army Training Team, for the period 24 December 1962 to 29 May 1964.


743


Pakistan Independence Medal 1947, unnamed as issued, nearly very fine


Belgium, Kingdom, Veterans Combat Cross, gilt and enamel, in card box of issue; Civil Decoration, Second Class, silver, in card box of issue, nearly extremely fine Germany, Third Reich, East Medal 1941-42, blackened zinc, very fine


Kuwait, Emirate, Medal for the Liberation of Kuwait 1991, 5th Grade, bronze and enamel, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine (5)


£50-£70


Sold together with two miniature badges of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, one silver and enamel, the other silver, both with heraldic beasts in angles, and both mounted on lady’s bow ribands.


744


A German Second War Panzer Assault Badge in Bronze Award Document. Awarded to Private Heinrich Kuhl, of the 4 Schützen Regiment 86, of the 10th Panzer Division during the advance into Russia, and signed by Generalmajor Wolfgang Fischer, the Commanding Officer who was subsequently killed in Tunisia in 1943, folded, but otherwise good condition


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