Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Attributed to Staff Sergeant Fong Chun-Hung, Hong Kong Civil Aid Service
Civil Defence Long Service Medal, E.II.R., post 1968 reverse, unnamed as issued, in Royal Mint case of issue; Hong Kong S.A.R. Civil Aid Service Long Service Medal, 4th Class in bronze, for 15 years’ service, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine

Pair: Fireman H. Bradshaw
Defence Medal; Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Fireman Henry Bradshaw); together with the recipient’s riband bars, good very fine

Voluntary Medical Service Medal, silver, with 3 Additional Award Bars (Frank H. Davies); together with the recipient’s British Red Cross Society Proficiency in Red Cross First Aid medal with additional dated bars for 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932; three Red Cross Service badges in gilt metal and enamel by J. R. Gaunt, London, comprising County of Glamorgan Red Cross badge (06776 F. H. Davies); Red Cross ‘For Service’ badge (20259); and Red Cross 10 Year Service Badge (8162 F. H. Davies); together with single cloth epaulette with three red cross rank ‘pips’, and Red Cross Glamorgan 13, brass shoulder title, with retaining pins and back plate, minor enamel chipping to second Red Cross badge otherwise better than very fine

Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, straight bar suspension, with 2 Additional Award Bars (20263 Corpl. W. Williams. Aberdare Divn. Aberdare. 1938) good very fine (lot) £60-£80

Fong Chun-Hung served in the Hong Kong Civil Aid Service, Cadet Training Section.
The Hong Kong S.A.R. Civil Aid Service Medal was instituted in 1997, and is awarded to officers and members of the Civil Aid Service with long and exemplary service. It comes in four classes.
Sold together with a photocopy letter of attribution from Frontier Medals and Collectables, of Hong Kong, stating that the medals were purchased directly from the recipient.

Frank H. Davies served as Secretary of the Cardiff West Branch of the Glamorgan British Red Cross.

William Williams was born 30 November 1899, and was employed in 1939 as a coal hewer, residing at 42 Bute Street, Aberdare.