Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Corporal T. E. Price, Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, generally good very fine

Five: Sergeant T. N. Oatway, Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, together with a named London County Council School Attendance Medal for 1912-13, the recipient’s identity tags (2), and a lapel badge, good very fine and better (13) £60-80

Tudor Edward Price served in the Royal Air Force from December 1940 until December 1945, including active service in the Middle East from November 1942 until the end of hostilities; sold with his original R.A.F. Service and Release Book, provisional campaign medal entitlement slip, and two wartime photographs.

Thomas Noel Oatway, who was born in December 1904, served in the Royal Air Force from October 1938 until being invalided from the Service in May 1945, having witnessed active service on the strength of H.Q. 338 Wing in the Middle East from 1942; sold with an interesting quantity of original documentation, including his R.A.F. Airman’s Service and Pay Book and autographed menus, etc., together with his wife’s Civil Defences ‘Appointment of Fire Guard’ card, Borough of Ealing, dated 15 May 1944.