Auction Catalogue

15 May 2024

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№ 363

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15 May 2024

Hammer Price:
£140

Six: G. E. Aitchison, Union Defence Force
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially impressed ‘2138 G. E. Aitchison’, mounted as worn, good very fine

Six: A. M. Dumas, Union Defence Force
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially impressed ‘144851 A. M. Dumas’, good very fine

Four: F. W. Dickinson, Union Defence Force
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially impressed ‘90740 F. M. Dickinson’, mounted as worn, good very fine

Pair: J. L. Hodges, Union Defence Force
War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, both officially impressed ‘39151 J. L. Hodges’, good very fine

Pair: C. A. Schoute-Vanneck, Union Defence Force
War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, both officially impressed ‘70763 C. A. Schoute-Vanneck’, mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted, good very fine (20) £140-£180

C. A. Schoute-Vanneck was a post-War Scientist in the Department of Physics, University of Natal, Durban, who wrote the following academic papers:
'Magnetospheric Propogation of VLF Waves from France to South Africa' (Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestial Physics, 1959); 'The Electron Density, Distribtion in the Magnetosphere Derived from Whistling Data' (Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestial Physics, 1963); '27kHz Radio Transmissions Observed and Sunrise and Sunet in South Africa' (Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestial Physics, 1968); and 'VFL Radio Transmission ay Sunrise' (US Journal of Geophysical Research, 1974).