A most unusual post-war group of five awarded to Sergeant J. S. Ross, Royal Air Force, who was recommended for the American Army Commendation Medal, an honour for which ‘permission to wear’ was subsequently refused in lieu of the peacetime conditions then prevailing

U.N. Medal, UNFICYP ribbon; Jubilee 1977; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (N4240384 Sgt. J. S. Ross, R.A.F.); United States of America, Army Commendation Medal, presumably as obtained by the recipient in a private capacity; Sultanate of Oman, General Service Medal, with clasp, good very fine (5) £400-500

James Sherriff Ross, who was born in March 1937, enlisted in the Royal Air Force in May 1958, and was finally discharged in February 1980, following extensive and distinguished services on the Continent.

Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including S.H.A.P.E. (Belgium) Certificate of Service for the period of September 1969 to February 1972, , signed by Christian F. Dubia, Colonel, U.S. Army; Benelux Medical Service Area, Certificate of Achievement, U.S.A. Army, Europe and Seventh Army, with typed citation, signed by Bruno Eisen, Colonel, and dated 14 February 1972; Jubilee Medal 1977 certificate of award; R.A.F. Germany, C.-in-C’s Commendation, dated 30 January 1978; Airwork Co. Ltd. letter confirming the recipient’s resignation from his employment in Oman, dated 4 August 1986, together with a signed statement confirming his entitlement to the Oman General Service Medal for services in the Sultanate’s armed forces as a Defence Contractor (Civilian), dated 21 June 1998; and photocopies of his R.A.F. Certificate of Qualifications, dated 29 February 1980, and of a letter from the Adjutant-General, U.S. Department of the Army, Washington D.C., dated 6 April 1972, confirming the British Government’s refusal to accept the recipient’s award of the Army Commendation Medal, so ‘processing of the actual award for presentation is not being completed’, but with an original photograph of him receiving his Certificate of Achievement, and another of him in Oman.