Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Warrant Officer Class I W. E. Tubb, Royal Air Force, later Kenya Police (Reserves)

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘W.O.1 W. E. Tubb, Box 53, El Doret; Kenya Coln., B.E.A.’; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (E.4458 I.P. (R) W. E. Tubb.) number officially corrected, in named card box of issue, good very fine and better (4) £100-£140

Walter Edwin Tubb was a motor mechanic who joined the Royal Air Force in 1939 as a member of ground crew, and served during the Second World War at Croydon Aerodrome, where he was advanced to Warrant Officer Class I, and spent the final years of the War servicing Lancaster Bombers. In the late 1940s he emigrated to Kenya, where he became the Chief Mechanic on a 50,000 acre coffee estate near Thika, 30 miles north of Nairobi. During the Mau Mau uprising he joined the Kenya Police Reserves.