Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Staff Sergeant K. T. Chard, Royal Engineers
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, good very fine

Five: Sergeant J. Cundall, Royal Engineers
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (2041739 Sgt, J. Cundall. R.E.) the last with edge bruise, otherwise good very fine (9) £80-£100

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward De Santis.

View
Collection

Kenneth Thomas Chard was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire on 28 September 1919 and enlisted in the Royal Engineers as a Sapper in Plymouth in October 1939. He subsequently served as a clerk in the General Reserve Engineer Force (G.R.E.F.) in India and Burma in the period June 1942 to January, being based for much of that time in Assam; the G.R.E.F. was charged with airfield and road construction duties in support of the Burma offensive. Having then held the acting rank of Warrant Officer, Chard was discharged as a Staff Sergeant in March 1946.

Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including his Certified Copy of Attestation; a School of Military Engineering certificate, dated 3 August 1940; his Soldier’s Service Book, with inserted portrait photograph; a pair of travel warrants for India; official correspondence in respect of his wartime gratuity and campaign medal entitlement; his Soldier’s Release Book Class ‘A’, and a testimonial, dated at Fort Shibden on 25 February 1946.

Joseph Cundall was born at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire on 8 August 1920 and originally enlisted in the Royal Engineers (Territorials) in April 1937, in which he served in a searchlight detachment in the Cinque Ports Fortress Engineers. He subsequently transferred to the Regular Army and was posted to 32 Field Company, R.E., in Gibraltar in November 1938, in which he remained employed on ‘The Rock’ until May 1942. Embarked for Normandy in 619 Field Park Company in XII Corps on 16 June 1944, he and his comrades were deployed to the Arnhem operations in September and ended the war on the Elbe. Placed on the Reserve on his return home, Cundall re-enlisted in the R.E. in September 1946 and was finally discharged as a Sergeant in November 1959.