Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Medals to Colonel Bill de Courcy-Ireland, D.S.C., Royal Marines

Royal Marines Rifle Association Medal, 1 clasp ’Young Officers Rifle Match’, brooch bar, ‘1930’, 26mm., silver, unnamed; Royal Tournament Medals (3) 39mm., bronze, named to De Courcy-Ireland, dated 1931, 1932, 1949; another (3) 32mm., bronze, named to De Courcy-Ireland, dated 1930, 1931, 1934; Shooting Medals, 38mm., silver base metal (2), ‘Med. Fleet 1949’; another, bronze, these unnamed; Marksmanship Medal, 38mm., silver, ‘RN Army RAF Rifle Match Malta 1948’, unnamed; Mediterranean Fleet Prize Medal, 32mm., bronze, ‘Assault-at-Arms Bayonet Team Winners’, unnamed; Prize Medal, 33mm., silvered bronze, ‘1st C.5 1949 Bayonet (Winner)’, unnamed; Prize Medal, 51mm., bronze, inscribed, ‘The Royal Gymnasium 1923’, unnamed, very fine and better (14) £60-80

Colonel Bernard William de Courcy-Ireland, R.M. “De C-I” won the Distinguished Service Cross while commanding the 30th Assault Unit, a special commando unit, in Germany in 1945. He had previously been wounded at Sicily in 1943 and was 2i/c of 45 Commando in Holland in 1944. Before the war he had trained as a naval pilot and in 1937 flew the lead aircraft in the Fleet Air Arm fly past at King George VI’s Coronation Review at Spithead. In addition to the D.S.C., he was awarded the 1939-45, Africa and Italy Stars; Defence and War Medals; N.G.S. with clasp for Malaya and Coronation 1953.

With copied research including newspaper cutting with extensive obituary and original and copied photographs of the recipient. Also with handwritten note from “De C-I”; together with associated riband bars and ribbon.