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Old WW2 Military hat box with Officers Royal Army
Service Corps peaked caps and side caps x4, attributed to
D E Green, plus a few daggers x3 (7) Buyer collects
£30 - £35
489
Order of British India Second Class, Neck Badge in Gold
and enamel, with Garrard case. Scarce
£1000 - £1200
490
Order of Thailand in case (54mm)
£55 - £60
491
Original documents relating to 6207 L/Sgt Sidney
Barnard Thompson 9th Lancers. Killed In Action 28th
October 1914. Born Cheltenham. Lot includes his
Probate Document, Marriage Certificate, Birth
Certificate (3)
£50 - £55
492
Original letters relating to 212988 Spr Percival Charles
Gillett RE who was Died of Wounds 1/5/1918. Born
Brighton. One letter is from the Regimental Chaplin to
his family
£50 - £55
493
Outstanding and scarce Great War Military Medal group & ephemera to 265674 Pte W. H. Gunn 1/1 Herts
Regt. Comprising MM + 1914/15 trio (trio 2801 Herts Regt.) mounted as worn on bar plus WW2 Defence
Medal in box of issue & slip to W.H. Gunn in West Ealing W13. Other medals include: London Private Fire
Bde Assn. LSGC. (Rim engraved 'W. Gunn 1939-49 Eastman's Fire Bde', on ribbon with bar 'W.H. Gunn').
Walter Gunn went to France with 1/1 Herts Regt on 21.1.1915 and later transferred to Bedfordshire Regt as
265674 (Bed & Herts. Regt.). His MM was awarded for gallantry as battalion runner, almost certainly for
11.5.1918. On this day the battalion were on their way up to the line to join the 112th Bde 37th Div. The
battalion (25 officers & 500 O/Rs.) marched into an area heavily infected by gas. All the battalion became
casualties. Letters accompanying the group refer to this gassing. L/Cpl. Gunn was I/C of battalion runners.
Ephemera accompanying the group includes: silver pocket watch engraved 'W.H. Gunn', ribbon bar with
MD, Herts Regt cap badge, wrist I/D tag, red & brown dog tags, Herts Rgt. lapel badge British Legion fob
sports medal in silver with chain, medal ribbons. Paper ephemera includes: pay books x 2, photo: recovery
from loss of sight due to gassing, large photo in uniform with MM ribbon, issue cert. for Herts. lapel badge,
NR I/D card, demob cert: also included: silver fire medal 'Acton', a book: '22 months under fire' His name in
cover. 2 x blazer badges, letter re award of MM from officer, parish mag announcing marriage dated 1920.
Finally a fascinating album of 20 photographs of Walter Gunn in WW1 and as a fireman in WW2. A fabulous
group direct from the family who have treasured them for nearly a century.
£500 - £600
494
Pakistan Medals, various issues (x20)
£50 - £60
495
Para badges wings etc, collection of six believed to be
WW2
£45 - £50
496
Para Dennison smock post WW2 dated 1951
£120 - £130