The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Medals and Militaria

RAF Halton, Barrington-Kennett Trophy, silver medal, type 2, by J. Pinches (562425 L/A/A Burrows, H.S.), hallmarked London 1930, with additional clasp Cross Country Running Senior 1931, extremely fine, original two-tone blue ribbon; in fitted blue Pinches case £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Medals and Militaria.

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Provenance:

A.C. Solomon Collection [acquired from the recipient’s son, 1989];
BDW Auction, 7 April 1994, lot 317 (part).

562425 Squadron-Leader (Pilot) H.S. Burrows; b. 11 January 1912; in 18th Halton Entry, September 1928; early in 1940 Burrows was one of a small number of Directional Wireless Installation-equipped Wellington pilots engaged in surveying magnetic mines in the English Channel and Thames estuary, later posted to the Middle East with his unit; first commissioned 18 November 1940; MID L.G. 8 June 1944; appointed Squadron-Leader 1 January 1949; retired 1 May 1959. His medal entitlement was 1939-45 Star, Africa Star and clasp North Africa 1942-43, Defence and War Medals with MID and Coronation 1953. Further research, including a portrait photograph and other group photographs, some taken at Halton, are sold with the lot.

Illustrated in Medal News, October 1993, pp.16-17.