Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant V. W. Langstone, Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (626795 Sgt. V. W. Langstone. R.A.F.) mounted as worn, edge bruise to last, good very fine

Four: Leading Aircraftman H. E. Beaver, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s Burma Star Association badge, good very fine (9) £80-£120

Henry Edward Beaver was born in London on 15 April 1908, and served during the Second World War as a Cook in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve from 28 May 1941, serving overseas in India, Burma, and South East Asia from 17 July 1943 to 9 January 1945. He was discharged on 18 February 1946. Retiring to Camborne, Cornwall, in 1967, he was a long standing member of the Burma Star Association, and died on in September 2008, shortly after celebrating his 100th birthday.

Sold with the recipient's Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Royal Air Force Service and Release Book; National Registration Identity Card; and two newspaper cuttings and two photographic images from the Parade in Truro to mark the 60th Anniversary of VE-Day in 2005, where Beaver, aged 97, was the oldest man on parade.