21st Sep, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
2139
A Quantity of Militaria, comprising a No.1 Service dress uniform to the Royal Artillery of tunic, later applied with a Second World War RAF full dress brevet to a signalman, trousers and peaked cap, a No.2 Service dress cap, an inert Mills Bomb No.36 - lacks base plug, a small quantity of buttons, cap badges and rank pips, a box camera, an Indian dagger and an Indian kukri, a powder horn etc., with research material.
Footnote:- the uniform belonged to the vendor's father Kenneth Fay Turner, who trained with the RAF in the Second World War as a Pilot Observer, he was sent to Canada for Navigator training in 1944, but did not complete it, being withdrawn from air crew training. He returned to the UK in May 1944 and released for employment in the mines under the Bevin scheme (Bevin Boys). After the war he joined the Royal Artillery as a Territorial.
Sold for £70
Estimated at £70 - £80
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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