Campaign Groups and Pairs x451 Five: Regimental Sergeant-Major Harold Thompson, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Coronation 1953; Efficiency Medal,
G.VI.R., 1st issue, Canada (W.O. Cl. I (RSM) H. Thompson RCOC); Canadian Forces Decoration, E.II.R. (S/Sgt. H. Thompson), together with The Lucas-Tooth Boys Training Fund for Efficiency, silvered bronze medal with ‘1922’ ribbon bar and ‘Lucas-Tooth’ top suspension bar (Cpl. H. Thompson, Devonshire Regt.) the first five mounted as worn, very fine (6)
£80-£120
Sold with a representative group of 6 miniature medals, RCOC cap badge, and Canadian Forces service records for the period September 1940 to August 1955, giving confirmation of medals but no details of place or date of birth but presumably somewhere in the U.K.
452
Pair: Petty Officer H. A. Arch, Royal Navy
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (P/JX. 661023 H. A. Arch. Ord. Smn. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (JX 661023 H. A. Arch. P.O. H.M.S. Undaunted.) minor edge bruising, good very fine (2)
£120-£160
Herbert A. Arch was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in February 1963 while serving with the destroyer H.M.S. Undaunted. At the time, this ship was operating as part of the 2nd Frigate Squadron at Portland.
453
Pair: Corporal F. G. S. Hill, 41 Independent Commando, Royal Marines
Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (Ch/X.5034 F. G. S. Hill Cpl. R.M.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, good very fine (2)
£240-£280
Francis George Stanley Hill was born at Woolwich, London on 19 January 1930 and joined the Royal Marines in London on 15 April 1947. Posted to R.M. Deal, he attended the N.C.O.s school at R.M. Barracks Plymouth, before joining 41 Independent Commando in Japan on 6 March 1951.
During the spring of 1951, 41 Independent Commando re-equipped in Japan following the earlier actions in the Korea War including Battle of Chosin Reservoir. Returning to the Korean peninsula, they conducted regular amphibious raids in enemy territory from Royal Navy Ships on the North Korean coast, attacking railway lines, supply lines, and infrastructure with the Republic of Korea Marine Corps. These raid were particularly successful and when 41 Independent Commando returned to England in December 1951 they were awarded a Unit Presidential Citation.
Hill was invalided out of the service in February 1952. Sold with copied research.
454
Pair: Private T. Gauci, Durham Light Infantry
Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (22345368 Pte. T. Gauci. D.L.I.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, both in card boxes of issue, edge bruising to first, good very fine and better (2)
£100-£140
455
Five: Staff Sergeant A. Dyer, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (22073107 Pte. A. Dyer. R.A.O.C.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (22073107 Sgt. A. Dyer. R.A.O.C.); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Malay Peninsula (22073107
S.Sgt. A. Dyer. RAOC.) officially re-impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (22073107
S.Sgt. A. Dyer. RAOC.) mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, the clasps on the two GSMs slightly at variance to what appears on the full-size group, generally good very fine (5)
£240-£280
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