Orders, Decorations and Medals

Mounted groups: Three: George Cross; Defence and War Medals. Six: D.F.C.; 1939-45 Star, with Battle of Britain clasp; Atlantic Star, with Air Crew Europe clasp; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953. Six: D.S.M., G.VI.R.; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, with France and Germany clasp; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D., the three groups mounted as worn, good very fine or better (15)

The George Cross group is attributed to Lieutenant Robert Davies, Royal Engineers, who was in charge of the bomb disposal team that recovered an unexploded bomb from a depth of 27 feet outside St Paul’s Cathedral during the London Blitz.