Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Fusilier W. Tharby, Lancashire Fusiliers, who died on 11 August 1943
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in OHMS card transmission box, addressed to ‘Mrs. V. R. Bateman, 20 Henderville St., Littleborough, Lancs.’, extremely fine

Four: Private C. E. Emeny, 5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, who was mortally wounded at Arnhem on 24 September 1944, and died of his wounds on 19 October 1944
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in OHMS card transmission box, addressed to ‘Mrs. M. Emeny, 44 East Court, N. Wembley, Middx’, extremely fine

Pair: Captain C. M. Ropner, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who died on 11 May 1945
Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in OHMS card transmission box, addressed to ‘Mrs. D. S. Ropner, Heckley House, Alnwick, Northumberland’, extremely fine (10) £100-£140

William Tharby served with the 11th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, and died on 11 August 1943. He is buried in Pembroke Cemetery, Malta. His medals were issued to his sole Legatee, his friend Mrs. V. R. Bateman.
Sold with various official letters, including the recipient’s will, which confirms that Mrs. Bateman was Tharby’s sole Executor and Legatee.

Cecil Edward Emeny served with the 5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, and was mortally wounded at Arnhem on 24 September 1944. He died of his wounds in Oxford on 19 October 1944, and is buried in Alperton Cemetery, Middlesex. His medals were issued to his mother, Mrs. Maud Emeny.

Cuthbert Maurice Ropner was born at Hartburn, Stockton-on-Tees, on 11 April 1905 and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served as a Captain in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers during the Second World War, and died on 11 May 1945. He is buried in Alnwick Cemetery, Northumberland. His medals were issued to his wife, Mrs. Dorothea Seymour Ropner.

Sold with copied research, including a group photograph presumably featuring Ropner (although not identified).