Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The group of nineteen miniature dress medals attributed to W. W. W. Węglewski, Polish Forces

Poland, Republic, Order of Polonia Restituta, Fourth Class breast badge, gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; Order of Polonia Restituta, Fifth Class breast badge, gilt and enamel; Cross of Merit, gilt and enamel, with two bronze Additional Award Bars; Army Medal, bronze, with one silver Additional Award Bar on riband; SPK Combatant’s Cross, silver; Air Force Medal, bronze and enamel, with three silver Additional Award Bars on riband; Cross of Merit, silvered and enamel; SPK Veterans’ Cross, gilt; SPK Cross for the Campaign of September 1939, silvered; SPK Veterans’ Cross, silvered-bronze; Italy, Commemorative Cross of the Constantinian Order of St. George, gilt and enamel; France, Republic, Combatant’s Cross, gilt; Combat Volunteer’s Cross 1939-45, gilt; Belgium, Kingdom, Commemorative Cross of the Royal Federation of Veterans of King Albert I of Belgium, bronze, with bronze palm on riband; European Confederation of Combat Veterans Cross, gilt and enamel; Great Britain, British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R.; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal, mounted court-style as worn, together with the ribands of three ‘missing’ miniatures, including the (British) War Medal 1939-45; together with the recipient’s full-sized neck badge of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, gilt and enamel, the reverse of the suspension bar engraved ‘W. W. Weglewski’; and the remnants of a Polish Cross of Merit, silver and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘11-11-1971 W. W. Węglewski -Londyn-’, some of modern manufacture, generally good very fine (lot) £100-£140

B.E.M. London Gazette 12 June 1976: Walter Wladyslaw Weglewski. For services to the community, State of New South Wales, Australia.

Note: The recipient’s full-sized awards sold in these rooms in October 2024.