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#115 – GROUP OF MILITARY PAPER ETC (Лот: 7468)
Аукцион завершенМинимальная цена продажи 40 $ не достигнутаGROUP OF MILITARY PAPER ETC. includes 3 3rd Reich uniformed photos, 2 3rd Reich color postcards, a British WWI tintype of soldier, British Regimental pin, 3 pieces of German WWII POW mail, a photo of Leslie Morris who served on the HMS Hood, etc. G. – EXC.
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#120 – Christmas Fund 1914 Princess Mary Gift Tin with Contents (Лот: 11866)
Аукцион завершенМинимальная цена продажи 150 £ не достигнутаChristmas Fund 1914 Princess Mary Gift Tin with Contents, fine example of the brass Princess Mary Christmas Fund 1914 gift tin which still contains the original packets of Tobacco and cigarettes. Also with the original 1914 Christmas card and small photograph of the princess. The set is also accompanied by the harder to find Photograph of King George V and Queen Mary (Mary of Teck) with printed message on the reverse. Set is in generally good condition for age. Some light areas of foil missing to the cigarette packet.
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#121 – Great War Documents of British Casualty in Ireland 1918 (Лот: 11867)
Ставки принимаются через менеджераGreat War Documents of British Casualty in Ireland 1918, interesting hand written letter to the wife of Private Edwin Wood, Sherwood Foresters attached Royal Defence Corps, who died on 10th November 1918, the letter details the burial of Private Wood and details of the return of his personal effects. Signed in ink by Major, commander of Military Barracks, Newry, County Down, Ireland, dated 17th November 1918. Also his 1919 dated effects form.
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#122 – WW2 Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Combat Report of Pilot Officer William McKnight DFC & Bar, No 242 Squadron Commanded by Sir Douglas Bader (Лот: 11868)
Ставки принимаются через менеджераWW2 Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Combat Report of Pilot Officer William McKnight DFC & Bar, No 242 Squadron Commanded by Sir Douglas Bader,the printed and typed combat report relates to an action on 18thSeptember 1940 over Tilbury Docks, London (Essex). The report gives the following details, ‘Forward E/Flight to intercept small enemy bomber formation with close fighter escort. Attacked a Ju88 with the C.O. and other fighters. Enemy port engine on fire and a/c rapid descent to sea level heading out to sea toward France. We turn back as Hurricanes of 302 polish Sdn are following him. Note another Junkers below with s/b engine feathered. S/Ldr Bader orders us to attack and we go in, also with a Hurricane of the Polish squadron. Enemy a/c well shot up and goes vertically down. Three crew parachute out the first catching tailplane before falling to earth. Other two down in sea. A/C down in sea off Sheerness. Time 17.30 hrs. C.O. orders us return to Duxford’. Signed in pencil by McKnight. Small area of paper loss to the top but otherwise good condition. Accompanied by a folder of research material.William Lidstone McKnight,DFC&Barwas a Canadian flying aceof WW2. He was Canada’s fifth-highest scoring ace of the war. McKnight joined theRoyal Air Forcein early 1939 and served inNo. 242 Squadron RAFduring the final phase of theBattle of France, covering the Allied retreat fromBrittany, and later theBattle of Britain. McKnight’s aircraft wore a distinct cartoon of ajackbootkickingAdolf Hitleron the port side of the engine cowling. His Hurricane also carried a human skeleton image which held a sickle in its hand under the cockpit, on both sides of the aircraft.McKnight scored 17 victories, as well as two shared and three unconfirmed kills. McKnight was shot down and killed on 12 January 1941 during a fighter sweep over Calais.
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#123 – Royal Air Force Casualty Log Book Grouping,relating to Air Gunner Vivian C Topham No 462 Squadron RAAF who was lost on air operations on the night of 6/7thJanuary 1945 (Лот: 11869)
Ставки принимаются через менеджераRoyal Air Force Casualty Log Book Grouping,relating to Air Gunner Vivian C Topham No 462 Squadron RAAF who was lost on air operations on the night of 6/7thJanuary 1945. The log book begins with training in March 1944, he was posted to 462 Squadron in late November 1944 with his first operation as a Mid Upper Gunner to Duisburg on 30thNovember 1944. He flew operationally another four times before his final missing where they were flying as Bomber support in the Ruhr area and his plane was shot down on the return journey, where he and the rest of his crew were killed. He was flying on Halifax Z5 N with his pilot being P/O Rohrlach. What makes this log book interesting and poignant is the large archive of letters and photographs relating to Topham, many written to and from his parents in relation to his first reporting missing and then later notification of him being killed in action, it would appear that he was buried at first with another one of his crew members, as he could not be accurately identified, but later re-interned in military cemetery in his own grave. Apart from the paperwork, other items in the group include photographs, models and items supposedly from the wreck. The archive makes for fascinating reading and brings home the horrors the family’s of lost aircrew must have gone through from notification of their son’s being reported missing to finally being notified of their deaths. Topham was from Turo, Cornwall, appears family later moved to Tiverton, Devon. His father being well known in the city as working with the Post Office and later with the Press, (some documents also relate to him and other members of the family). Commonwealth War Graves Commission shows that Vivian Topham now rests in Hotton war cemetery, Belgium, alongside other members of his crew. He was just 19 at the time of his death.
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#124 – Grouping of Original WW2 Artwork by G.H.Davis (Лот: 11870)
Ставки принимаются через менеджераGrouping of Original WW2 Artwork by G.H.Davis,the grouping consists of three artists boards, the first being a map of Bizerta looking south, dated 1942; second is the construction method of rubber housing / air raid shelters; the third is the construction and insertion of a Bailey Bridge. All remain in good condition.G H Davis was a well known artist whose realistic portrayal of aircraft, vehicles, ships, many of them cutaway, made him the Artist of choice for such work during the Second World War. He worked for the Illustrated London News for some forty years and passed away in 1963.
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#238 – Interesting Charge of the Light Brigade Memorial Silver Gilt Brooch (Лот: 6141)
Аукцион завершенМинимальная цена продажи 100 £ не достигнутаInteresting Charge of the Light Brigade Memorial Silver Gilt Brooch, in the shape of a bugle, inscribed ‘Balaclava Oct. 25. 1854’. 38mm long, with a stout pin and catch. There is an identical example in the British Museum, chained rather than pinned. Modelled on the bugle blown by Trumpeter William Brittain of the 17th Lancers, possibly worn by members at reunions.
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#239 – Decorative Victorian Partizan (Лот: 6142)
Аукцион завершенМинимальная цена продажи 100 £ не достигнутаDecorative Victorian Partizan, iron head with open socket etched with scrolling foliage, on its wooden pole. Good condition, some rust to head. Head48cms, overall 195.5cms. Due to length of this item, we are not able to offer in house post and packing on this lot. Specialist shiippers can be recommended, courier delivery or personal collection.
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#239 – WW2 American Airborne – ‘NUTS DEC 44 – BASTOGNE’ Bronze plaque (Лот: 11408)
Ставки принимаются через менеджераWW2 American Airborne – ‘NUTS DEC 44 – BASTOGNE’ Bronze plaque, commemorating the famous battle of Bastogne made from spent brass shells. 5 ¼ x 5 ½ inches. Bastogne was held by Americans and surrounded by the XLVII Panzer Corps. On December 22, 1944, General von Luttwitz submitted a formal demand to surrender to the Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe. McAuliffe’s formal reply was, ‘To the German Commander, NUTS! The American Commander’.
