Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. H. Jackson, Royal Army Pay Corps
Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; together with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, very fine

Three: Private Winifred M. Grant, ‘B’ Company, No. 2 London District Group, Auxiliary Territorial Service
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Women’s Royal Voluntary Service Medal, unnamed, with Royal Mint case of issue, mounted court-style for display; together with the recipient’s original A.T.S. and V.A.D. Book; and the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, very fine

Pair: Staff Sergeant J. E. S. Richards, Royal Army Pay Corps
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (22482051 Sgt. J. Richards. R.A.P.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (22482051 S. Sgt. J. E. S. Richards RAPC.) light contact marks, very fine

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style for display, good very fine (13) £100-£140

John Henry Jackson, a clerk, was born on 9 July 1916 and enlisted in the Royal Army Pay Corps in London on 2 July 1940.
Sold with a number of Educational Certificates from the London College of Music and Northern Polytechnic (Holloway), the latter a Sessional Report regarding an evening course in Administration & Estimating, dated July 1948.

Winifred Mary Grant, a shop assistant, served as a Clerk in the A.T.S. from 17 March 1943.

John Ellis Sulwyn Richards was born at Penmachne, Caernarvon, on 13 February 1933. He served with the BAOR from February 1956 and transferred to the Costings Division, FARELF, from January 1966. Awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in 1971, Richards died in Oxford on 26 April 2018, his profession listed as Accountant, British Armed Forces (retired).

Sold with a small quantity of insignia relating to the Army Pay Corps and associated units; and a Royal Scots Medal presented to Captain Charles Henry Sanford, who served as Paymaster of the Regiment from 19 May 1879, and was promoted honorary Major on 19 May 1884, the obverse bearing the Regimental badge, the reverse engraved ‘Capt. C. H. Sanford’, and all mounted in a glazed display frame.