Single Campaign Medals x486 General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14690682 Spr. S. A. Minshull. R.E.) good very fine £100-£140
Stanley Albert Minshull was born in Mussouri, India, on 20 August 1925 and served with the 9th Airborne Squadron Royal Engineers in post-War Palestine. He was killed on 5 January 1946 when the jeep in which he was travelling collided with a car on the Gaza- Rehovoth Road; the driver of the jeep, a sapper in the same unit, and two other occupants were slightly injured. He is buried under a C. W.G.C. headstone in Ramleh War Cemetery.
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General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (7674221 Sigmn. F. Green, R. Sigs.) with original forwarding letter and outer OHMS envelope addressed to ‘Mr. F. Green, 14 Howard Road, Ilford, Essex; together with three Second War Medals, comprising Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; and War Medal 1939-45, these three accompanied by a hand-written note from the vendor attributing them to a Mr. L. C. Worsfold, 46b New Road, Rochester, Kent, nearly extremely fine (4)
£60-£80 488 489 490
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14920314 Pte. J. Frame. AAC.) in damaged named card box of issue, extremely fine
£80-£120 General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya,
G.VI.R. (EA 18114459 Pte. Radson Nkwata. K.A.R.) good very fine £40-£50
General Service 1918-62 (2), 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (4046252 S.A.C. H. Robins R.A.F.) number partially officially corrected; another, 1 clasp, Cyprus (22887566 Cpl. G. H. Smith. D.W.R.) surname partially officially corrected on last, generally good very fine (2)
£60-£80 x491 492 493 x494
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (2829616. S.A.C.W. S. H. E. Howells. W.R.A.F.) in named card box of issue, extremely fine
£80-£120
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Near East (22960111 Pte. T. Manley, R.M.P.) slight edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine
£80-£120
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Arabian Peninsula (23698398 Pte. D. Schofield. R. Warwick.) edge bruising, good very fine
£60-£80
India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (5496108 Pte. C. Moore. Hamps. R.) toned, extremely fine
£80-£120
Cyril Moore attested for the Hampshire Regiment and served with the 2nd Battalion on the North West Frontier of India. He died at home whilst still in service on 27 January 1940, and is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Salisbury (London Road) Cemetery, Wiltshire.
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Private H. Coldicott served in India with the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (5110091 H. Coldicott. R. War. R.) edge nicks,
nearly extremely fine 496 £80-£120
1939-45 Star (2); Atlantic Star (2); Pacific Star (2); Burma Star (2); Italy Star (3); France and Germany Star; Defence Medal (2); War Medal 1939-45 (3); together with various copy clasps for the Second War Stars; and various M.I.D. oak leafs, three of the Stars silver dipped, generally nearly very fine and better (17)
£80-£120 497
The War Medal 1939-45 awarded to Flying Officer R. E. Dowson, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve War Medal 1939-45, unnamed as issued, extremely fine
£70-£90
Ronald Eric Dowson was born on 20 April 1925, at Reigate, Surrey, the son of George Dowson and Maud Elizabeth Dowson (née Ellis). He was Cadet 166 with III Flight , 311 Squadron Air Training Corps, Brentford & Chiswick, and joined the Royal Air Force, becoming 1812038 Leading Aircraftman R. E. Dowson. He was at R.A.F. Tiree in Scotland between 1943-44, and attended Navigation course No. 114 at No. 1 Central Navigation School, Royal Canadian Air Force Station at Rivers, Manitoba. He attended the No. 1, C.N. S. Graduation Dinner on 27 March 1945, and gave the Toast to The King.
He was given a commission as a Pilot Officer with a new service number of 16839 on, 29 March 1945.
He began training as a Navigator and flew on Anson V 12383 on 25 November 1944 as 1st & 2nd Navigator, and qualified as an Air Navigator on 30 March 1945. On 24 May 1945, he was at No. 6 Officer Training Unit at Comox, British Columbia. On 30 September 1945, he was posted to 232 Group, flying from Lyneham to Castle Benito, then on 1 October to Lydda, 2 October to Shaibah, 3 October to Karachi, 10 October to Calcutta and finally, on 13 October, to Rangoon. He was then promoted to Flying Officer, 29 September 1945. On 14 October 194,5 he was posted to No. 96 Squadron, Transport Command, on Dakotas at Bilaspur, and on 1 May 1946 No. 96 Squadron was renamed No. 110 squadron, flying Dakotas. His logbook shows his last flight as a navigator was on 20 April 1947. In 1949 he was living at 10a Boston Manor Road, Brentford, Middlesex.
Sold with original R.C.A.F. Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot for the period 6 November 1944 to 29 March 1947; Graduation Dinner Menu from Navigation Course, Rivers, Manitoba; Notification of passing Navigation course; Certificate of qualification as Air Navigator dated 30 March 1945; and a quantity of photographs of time training and stationed at R.A.F. Transport Command No. 3 Staging Post; together with related Gazette notices and other research, mostly copied to CD.
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