Auction Catalogue

4 & 5 December 2008

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 471

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5 December 2008

Hammer Price:
£170

Commission warrants and a Mention in Despatches certificate appertaining to Captain F. R. Sillitoe, Royal Marines, the former for the ranks of 2nd Lieutenant, dated 16 February 1944, and Lieutenant, dated 25 July 1950, the last signed by Mountbatten of Burma; and Mention in Despatches certificate in the name of ‘Captain Frederick Roy Sillitoe, R.M., 42 Commando, Royal Marines’, dated 13 June 1957, this last framed and glazed, in excellent condition (3) £100-120

Sillitoe was mentioned in despatches in respect of services in the Suez operations.