Orders, Decorations and Medals

A well-documented Second World War campaign group of six awarded to Corporal J. C. Scott, Royal Signals, late Royal Berkshire Regiment, a wireless operator in No. 11 Beach Signals Section who was present in the Sicily - and other Allied - landings

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, together with a related set of miniature dress medals, his Royal Signals cap badge and embroidered ‘Beach Signals’ shoulders flashes, good very fine and better (Lot) £150-200

James Cravenhill Scott, a native of Lambourn, Berkshire who was born in July 1914, enlisted in the Royal Berkshire Regiment in June 1940. Transferring to the Royal Signals in March 1941, he qualified as a signaller and wireless operator and was advanced to Lance-Corporal in December 1942. Posted to the Middle East as a member of No. 11 Beach Signals Section in May 1943, he was actively employed in the Sicily landings, and afterwards in Italy and France and Germany. Advanced to Corporal in April 1944, he was released in January 1946.

Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, National Identity Card and Soldier’’s Release Book; Record of Service Card and Certificate of Transfer to the Army Reserve; approximately 45 photographs of wartime vintage, including the recipient and fellow members of 11 Beach Signals Section; two wartime maps, one of Sicily showing enemy positions; and his leather wallet with Italian bank notes.

Shoulder flashes are later ‘printed’ reproductions