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№ 361

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11 September 2024

Hammer Price:
£100

Four: attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. Wallace-Turner, Royal Army Service Corps
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, together with named card box of issue addressed to ‘Lt Col. A. W. Wallace-Turner, Ripley Grange, Hartley Wintney, Hants.’; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted, good very fine

Four: attributed to H. A. Prismall
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in named card box of issue addressed to ‘H. A. Prismall Esq., 10 The Mount, Christchurch Road, Reading’, very fine

Three: attributed to Driver C. Millar, Royal Artillery and Royal Army Service Corps
1939-45 Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; together with eleven photographs taken from the recipient’s service in Italy, good very fine

Pair: attributed to Ordinary Seaman J. Millar, Royal Navy, who died in the Faroe Islands on 13 February 1942
1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; together with two photographs of the recipient and a memorial card, good very fine

Pair: attributed to Lance Bombardier A. Fisher, Royal Field Artillery
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; together with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Skill at Arms Record Book; R.A.A. Benevolent Fund subscription card and additional paperwork, very fine

Pair: attributed to F. Frost
Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. F. Frost, 87 Woodstock Way, Mitcham, Surrey’, good very fine (17) £100-£140

Alfred Wallace Wallace-Turner was born on 23 May 1898 and was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps in in December 1939. Advanced Major on 6 March 1945, he was discharged shortly thereafter with the rank of honorary Lieutenant-Colonel.

James Millar, a native of Roslin, Midlothian, served as an Ordinary Seaman in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. He died in the Faroe Islands on 13 February 1942, whilst borne on the books of H.M.S. Pyramus, and is buried in Torshavn Cemetery, Faroe Islands.

Arthur Fisher was born on 30 May 1920 and enlisted for the Royal Artillery at Fareham on 23 February 1938. Posted to the Hampshire Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery, on 25 March 1940, he served at home for the entire duration of the War.