WW1 Pair of Medals to 14th ( Bantams ) Gloucestershire Regiment - Chapman, plus photos, brass ID bracelet and cap badge

Description: Full Size Medals – WW1 Pair + Bracelet & Pics – 27065 PTE. Christopher. F. CHAPMAN. 14th Service Battalion the Gloucestershire Regiment (Bantams).
• British War Medal (BWM) Named to: 27065 PTE.C.F. CHAPMAN. GLOUC.R. (Complete with a Period Piece of the Correct Ribbon.)
• Victory Medal Named to: 27065 PTE.C.F. CHAPMAN. GLOUC.R. (Complete with a Period Piece of the Corr...  read more

Code: 54361

British War Medal to Royal Naval Air Service ( R.N.A.S. ) George Praerer Haines (Stratford -on Avon, Warwickshire) - his only medal and with box of issue

Medal in EF condition with original ribbon. Correctly impressed to F.22687 G.P. Haines, A.M.I., R.N.A.S. Box in good condition but grubby.

Medal comes with some research, copy of 1911 census confirming his birth year as 1888 and his trade as carpenter. Copy of Medal roll confirming entitled to BWM only, meaning he served at one of the airbases in England, Attached Presid...  read more

Code: 54359

Order of Industrial Heroism ( O.I.H. ) Medal - William Hazon, Durham Colliery Miner - Very scarce Life Saving Award

The ‘Daily Herald’ Order of Industrial Heroism, bronze, with the reverse correctly engraved "William Hazon, 14th Sept. 1946" in case of issue, original ribbon and suspension bar, extremely fine. Some staining to silk lining to case interior and wear to case. See photos.

In 1923 The Daily Herald, a campaigning left-wing newspaper, observed that there ‘had not yet been esta...  read more

Code: 54357

WW2 Group of Seven to Able Seaman Frank Raymond Grey, A.B., Ex Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Reserve

The medals are loose on their ribbons and in good condition:

a) 1939-45 Star (“F Grey” scratched on the reverse)
b) Africa Star with clasp “North Africa 1942-43”) Star (“F Grey” scratched on the reverse)
c) Italy Star (“F Grey” scratched on the reverse)
d) Atlantic Star (“F Grey” scratched on the reverse)
e) War Medal, 1939-45 (unnamed as issue...  read more

Code: 54354

Scarce Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant ( R.Q.M.S. ) Brass Rank Star ( pre 1915 )

A brass appointment sleeve badge worn above four inverted chevrons by a R.Q.M.S. in the form of a rose to the centre of an eight-pointed star with two original lugs to the reverse. Introduced in 1881. Obsolete from 1915 onwards as replaced by a crown. Circa 3.6cm across.  read more

Code: 54329

Light Infantry Regiments Anodised Aluminum AA Silver Coloured Large Pattern Button

Anodised aluminum silver coloured button, circa 26mm in diameter. Floating shank. Backmarked Buttons Limited, Birmingham. Worn circa 1946 - 1959 by the regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade, which included the Durham Light Infantry ( DLI ), King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ( KOYLI ), King's Shropshire L.I., and the Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry. Signs of minor service wear.
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Code: 54311

The Light Infantry Anodised Aluminum AA Large Pattern Gilt Coloured Button

Anodised aluminium button, circa 26mm in diameter. Backmarked Smith & Wright, Birmingham. Worn circa 1959 onwards. This is a light gilt colour.

Ripley No 315 refers.  read more

Code: 54310

Radnor Home Guard ( HG ) Brass Cap Badge, QEII crown, post WW2

A good stiff brass badge with original slider. Queens crown denotes post 1952. Welsh Home Guard unit, 2nd phase, 1951 to 1957.

In December 1951, the Home Guard, disbanded in 1945, was again raised, to be finally stood down in July 1957. Some units had badges produced at their own expense, and this included the Radnor Home Guard. The county was in the South Wales Border...  read more

Code: 54270

Air Raid Precautions ARP Hallmarked Silver Lady's Issue Pin Badge - Date letter D for 1939

A good early war example, reverse with London silver hallmarks for 1939 and with makers mark "J.C.". In very good condition, original pin and 'c' clasp fittings.
Height 38mm.

Will post to a UK address and the Channel Islands only (in respect of the latter put UK as country at check out).

In very good condition.  read more

Code: 54260

British Copy of the German 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania Iron Medal

This iron medallion measures circa 55 mm in diameter and is circa 3mm thick. Regrettably it is missing its box.

It is one of some 300,000 British copies made on the instructions of Captain Reginald Hall, RN, Director of Naval Intelligence as an item of anti-German propaganda. The original German medallion was made in August 1915 by Karl Goetz, a Munich based medallist, ...  read more

Code: 54242