Auction Catalogue

7 December 2005

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1307

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7 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£210

Victoria Cross Autographs (6) ‘Edward D. Bellow V.C., Captain’, written on a newspaper cutting; the signature of Carton de Wiart on a letter dated ‘Christmas 1950’; ‘Milton Gregg’, on a slip of paper; ‘Ian Fraser V.C., D.S.C.’, together with the signature of ‘Vera Lynn on a ‘National Ex-Prisoner of War Association’ cover; ‘C. N. Mitchell’, on a letter dated 17 November 1976; ‘Bill Reid V.C.’ together with ‘Mike Chatterton’ and other signatures on a ‘Avro Lancaster Bomber 50th Anniversary’ cover; other signatures (2), these all mounted in an album; together with the booklet, The Victoria Cross Centenary Exhibition, 1956, 143pp., good condition (lot) £140-180

Captain Edward Donald Bellow, 7th Battalion British Columbia Regiment, C.E.F. - V.C. London Gazette 15 May 1919.

Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, V.C., K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., 4th Dragoon Guards and Gloucestershire Regiment - V.C. London Gazette 21 April 1917.

Brigadier Milton Fowler Gregg, V.C., C.B.E., M.C. & Bar, Royal Canadian Regiment, C.E.F. - V.C. London Gazette 6 January 1919.

Lieutenant-Commander Ian Edward Fraser, V.C., D.S.C., R,D, & Bar, R.N. - V.C. London Gazette 13 November 1945.

Lieutenant-Colonel Coulson Norman Mitchell, V.C., M.C., Canadian Engineers, C.E.F. - V.C. London Gazette 31 January 1919.

Flight Lieutenant William Reid, V.C., R.A.F. - V.C. London Gazette 14 December 1943.