Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Warrant Officer Class II F. A. J. Searle, Royal Army Pay Corps, late Royal Signals
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (2321450 Cpl. F. A. J. Searle. R.A.P.C.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, light contact marks, very fine

Four: Warrant Officer Class II E. H. Hewitt, Royal Army Pay Corps
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (7669109 W.O. Cl. 2. E. Hewitt. R.A.P.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (7669 109 W.O. Cl. 2. E. H. Hewitt. R.A.P.C.) mounted as worn, very fine (10) £120-£160

Frederick Arthur James Searle was born in Catford on 18 August 1902 and enlisted in the Royal Signals on 28 April 1931. Appointed Signaller on probation at Preston, he was raised Lance Sergeant 5 December 1936 and served in Palestine from 19 November 1938. Posted to R.P.O. Whitchurch November 1955, he died at Hayling Island, Hampshire, on 4 August 1997.

Ernest Harold Hewitt was born in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, on 30 November 1913. Recorded in 1939 as an Accounts Clerk, he enlisted at Coventry for the Royal Army Pay Corps (T.A.) and was posted to Detachment, R.A.P.C. Warwick. Hewitt went on to pass the trade test for Clerk II Class 9 October 1940, and was raised Corporal upon passing Class I in the spring of 1941. Posted to North West Europe 13 May 1945, Hewitt qualified as an operator on the Burroughs Class 9 (Simplex) posting machine and was later sent to the R.A.P.C. Training Centre at Aldershot as C.S.M. “A” Company. Posted to Singapore as part of FARELF, he served at the R.P.O. Malaya and was issued the GSM, clasp Malaya on 19 June 1957. The following year he qualified for the L.S. & G.C. Medal under List 40 of 1958; discharged at his own request 29 September 1962, the recipient’s address upon leaving the R.A.P.C. was recorded as ‘Royal Winchester Golf Club’.

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