Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An H.M.S. Courageous Presentation Shield
A small presentation shield, 51mm x 48mm, silver, hallmarks for London 1926, engraved ‘H.M.S. Courageous. W/T Air Operator C. F. Wallington. Efficiency Badge’, mounted on a wooden plaque; together with a War Medal 1939-45, officially impressed ‘125481 A. Klein’ as issued to a Union Defence Force recipient; a Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘B221146’; and three Great War-era postcard photographs, depicting Lieutenant J. D. Drummond, Royal Field Artillery; Sergeant G. H. Wilkin, Norfolk Regiment; and Private G. Berry, Royal Engineers, the first mounted in a small glazed frame, generally good condition (lot) £60-£80

Cyril Frank Wallington was born in Brighton, Sussex, on 28 October 1905 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class in February 1921. Promoted Telegraphist on 30 November 1923, he served in the Fleet Air Arm Aircraft Carrier from May 1928, and was awarded the Efficiency Badge for his good work in pioneering Ship to Air Wireless Telegraphy. Subsequently commissioned Lieutenant, R.N., he was later seconded on loan to the Royal Canadian Navy. He died in Peacehaven, Sussex, on 25 August 1970.

Herbert John Perry attested for the Royal Field Artillery on 10 March 1917 and served as a Driver with 62nd Reserve Battery during the Great War. He was discharged die to sickness at Woolwich on 12 February 1919 and was awarded a Silver War Badge, no. B221146.

George Henry Wilkin served with the Norfolk Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 August 1914, and was killed in action on 23 April 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.