21st Sep, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
2025
A Group of Three First World War and Africa Campaign Medals, comprising British War Medal and Victory Medal named to 669150 PTE.C.(Cecil) J.GAY CAN.PNE.BN. and Africa General Service Medal with clasp SOMALILAND 1920 named to 337330 A.C.2. C.J.GAY. R.A.F., swing mounted as worn, together with the miniatures and medal ribbon bar, also with a photocopy of his obituary.
Footnote:- At the age of 7, Cecil J Gay moved with his family from England to Canada, but he ran away from home at the age of 14 to join the Forces in the First World War. After the war he settled in England where he married and moved to Ripon, North Yorkshire. He started a bakery and soon expanded, opening shops in Westgate, Ripon and in Oxford Street and Leeds Road, Harrogate.
Sold for £550
Estimated at £600 - £800
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 21st Sep, 2022
The Militaria & Ethnographica offers over 450 lots.
Highlights include a rare 1943 US edition of the French 1939 Michelin Guide used during the D-Day landings, a Second World War RAF, RAAF and ROC Group of Nine Medals to Wing Commander William Anderson Beaumont, who survived four days and nights without food in the jungle and the uniform of POW Major General Philip Thomas Tower including his khaki greatcoat which became his escape outfit. Also included is a pair of 18th Century Percussion Duelling/Target Pistols by Twigg & Bass, London, circa 1780-83, a French 1830 Revolution Model Shako to d'Officer de Chasseur de La Garde Nationale and a Birmingham City Police Rose Top Helmet and an Isle of Man Police Force Ball Top Helmet.
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