Campaign Groups and Pairs 354
Six: C. P. Coetzer, South African Forces 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially impressed ‘179777 C. P. Coetzer’, good very fine
Five: Attributed to E. G. Skinner, Royal Engineers 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, with Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. E. G. Skinner, 10 Ivel Rd, Sandy, Beds.’, in original packaging, good extremely fine
Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (164752 Gnr. H. Butterworth. R.A.; 12583 Cpl. W. H. Barton. R.A.F.); Defence Medal (54062 J. D. Daniels); Army L.S. & G.C.,
G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (5771074
S.Sgt. C. R. Simmonds. R.E.M.E.) the Defence Medal with significant verdigris, otherwise generally very fine and better (15)
£70-£90
Sold together with the remnants of a German Third Reich Iron Cross 1939, Second Class, lacking suspension ring; a rank ‘pip’; collar title; and a ‘Friend of St. George’s Descendant of a Knight of the Garter’ lapel badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse numbered ‘12’.
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Four: Private A. Harrington, 4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial (5488126 Pte. A. Harrington. 4 - Hamps. R.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, mounted as originally worn, generally very fine (4)
£80-£100 Efficiency Medal awarded Army Orders for February 1936. 356 Pair: Observer Lieutenant H. Taylor, Royal Observer Corps
Defence Medal, with Home Secretary’s enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. H. Taylor, Gatehouse Garages, Aycliffe, Co. Durham’; Royal Observer Corps Medal, E.II.R., 1st issue (Observer Lieutenant. H. Taylor) in named card box of issue; together with the recipient’s related miniature awards and riband bar, extremely fine and scarce to rank (2)
£260-£300
Sold together with a Royal Observer Corps Officer’s Peaked Cap, with badge; a portrait photograph of the recipient; and a newspaper cutting with a group photograph featuring the recipient.
357
Pair: Sergeant J. B. McPherson, Royal Air Force
Defence Medal; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C.,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (561190 Sgt. J. B. McPherson. R.A.F.) in named card box of issue; together with the recipient’s Royal Air Force Halton, Barrington Kennet Trophy Medal, silver, the reverse inscribed ‘1929-30 Senior Boxing Member Winning Team J. B. McPherson No.2 Wing’; and a Royal Life Saving Society Swimming Medal, bronze, the reverse inscribed ‘J.
Mc.Pherson Sept. 1932’, about extremely fine (4)
£200-£300
James Blair McPherson was born in Morningside, Edinburgh, on 28 June 1911, and joined the Royal Air Force on on 19 January 1927, being posted to No. 2 Wing, R.A.F. Halton. He served in Iraq from 16 October 1931 to 17 February 1935, and was promoted Corporal on 1 April 1939. He served during the Second World War as a Coppersmith and Sheet Metal Worker with 21 (B) Squadron at R. A.F. Halton, and was promoted temporary Sergeant on 3 April 1942. Re- mustered as a Metal Worker on 16 June 1943, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 19 January 1945, and was discharged on 11 January 1949.
Sold together with the recipient’s parchment Certificate of Service and Discharge, in original blue envelope; Statement of Service and Certificate of Discharge (which states that the recipient was also entitled to a War Medal 1939-45); Driving Licence; and two photograph albums compiled by the recipient showing his time in Iraq, 1931-35, containing a mixture of service and tourist black and white photographs, the majority annotated, including one of the recipient.
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