Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (2316612 Sgln. E. Beck. R. Signals.) in named card box of issue, nearly extremely fine

Three: Sergeant L. Beck, Royal Field Artillery, later Royal Corps of Signals
1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, nearly extremely fine

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (POMA D R Butt D147171N RN) in named card box of issue, nearly extremely fine (5) £70-£90

Ernest Beck died age 27 at 63 Harcourt Road, Blackpool, 13 March 1934. His death certificate gives the cause of death as ‘Misadventure General Paralysis of the insane accelerated by effects of being knocked down by a motor car in Marton Drive, Blackpool on 26th November 1932.’ Beck’s IGS was issued to his mother.

Lawrence Beck was born in Manchester in December 1903, and enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery (T.A.) at the city of his birth in June 1920. He transferred to the Royal Corps of Signals in March 1922, advanced to Lance Corporal in November 1927, and to Sergeant in November 1941. Beck was discharged in August 1945.

Sold with the following related documentation: Enclosure letter for I.G.S. addressed to E. Beck’s mother, dated 7 May 1934; L. Beck’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, covers detached; Discharge Certificate, and National Registration Identity Card.

Petty Officer Medical Assistant Butt is not related to the above.