Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private S. J. M. Ward, Royal Army Medical Corps

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. S. J. Ward, 86A Hednesford Rd, Cannock, Staffs.’; together with the recipient’s Dunkirk Medal, good very fine (6) £100-£140

Stanley James Mansfield Ward was born in Rugeley, Staffordshire on 8 November 1918, and attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps on 1 November 1939. He served with the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France in 1940, prior to the retreat from Dunkirk, and then with the 16th British General Hospital, Middle East Forces, in North Africa and the Middle East.

Sold with the recipient’s identity tags and various R.A.M.C. cap badges, buttons, and other unit insignia; Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Soldier’s Release Book; named Certificate for the Dunkirk Medal, together with various Dunkirk Veterans Association letters and ephemera; a selection of Wartime Christmas cards and other letters to the recipient’s wife; the recipient’s baptism Certificate, glazed and framed; a portrait photograph of the recipient, glazed and framed; a coloured portrait of the recipient, glazed and framed; a portrait photograph of the recipient with his wife on the wedding day, glazed and framed; and various other ephemera.