Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Private P. H. C. Winser, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
1914-15 Star (19277 Pte. P. H. C. Winser, D. of Corn: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (19277 Pte. P. H. C. Winser. D. of Corn. L. I.) very fine

Three: Flight Sergeant B. C. Winser, Royal Air Force, who was killed in a flying accident on 4 April 1945
1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, all privately named ‘575706 F/Sgt. B. C. Winser R.A.F.’, the naming on the 1939-45 Star double-struck in places, extremely fine (6) £70-£90

Percy Herbert Curtis Winser was born at Cranbrook, Kent in 1888. He served in the 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 July 1915, and was discharged to the Class Z reserve on 3 May 1919. He died in 1976 in Claro, North Yorkshire.

Benjamin Curtis Winser was born in 1923, the son of P. H. C. Winser. As a Flight Sergeant (Pilot) in the Royal Air Force he was killed in an air crash with his navigator in the mountains of North Wales near Barmouth on 4 April 1945. He is buried in Chester (Blacon) Cemetery, Cheshire.