Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

A Great War Western Front M.M. group of six awarded to Driver G. A. J. Hales, 1st London Field Company, Royal Engineers
Military Medal, G.V.R. (1036 Dvr.: G. A. J. Hale. 1/Lond: R.E.); 1914-15 Star (1036. Dvr. G. A. Hales, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (1036 Spr. G. A. J. Hales. R.E.) note spelling of surname on last three; Defence Medal; Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R. (George Alfred Joseph Hale M.M.) very fine

Five: Constable B. J. Hale, Metropolitan Police, late Royal Naval Patrol Service
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; War Medal 1939-45; Police Long Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Const. Bernard J. Hale) these four mounted as worn; France, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver and enamel, in Arthus Bertrand case of issue; together with Normandy 1944 and R.N.P.S. 1939-45 commemorative medals, both in cases of issue, generally very fine or better (13) £500-£600

M.M. London Gazette 27 October 1916.

George Alfred Joseph Hale was born in 1895 and was a telephone mechanic by trade. He joined the Royal Engineers and served in France from 12 December 1914. He married 10 July 1920, Alice Baxter, and had two sons, George, who was killed when the Halifax he was flying was shot down over the Bay of Biscay in 1943, and Bernard. He died on 10 June 1968, aged 73. Sold with copied m.i.c (Hales), two post card portrait photographs in uniform and another post card from France to his future wife Alice.

Bernard John Hale was born in 1924 and became a messenger boy for the G.P.O. on leaving school. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy as a wireless operator with the Sea Cadets, and in 1946 joined the Metropolitan Police. Sold with two wartime photographs, one with his brother before he was killed, and copied photographs of him in old age receiving the Legion of Honour.