3rd Dec, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
  Lot 62
 

62

A Second World War Royal Canadian Air Force Casualty Group of Six Medals, awarded to J/18012 Pilot Officer Eric Joseph Monk, 156 Squadron (RAF) Royal Canadian Air Force, who was killed in action 17 June 1943, comprising 1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Canadian Memorial (Silver) Cross for Mothers and Widows, together with silver Operational Wings and certificate, telegrams to his widow reporting him missing presumed dead, letters of confirmation of his death, numerous letters of condolence, photographs, including one of his grave, his passport, birth certificate etc and a typed copy of a letter written to his widow by a member of the Belgian underground dated 22/11/44 which states that her husband was not killed, but survived and helped to escape the Germans by him and other members of the Resistance group.

Sold for £550
Estimated at £300 - £500


 

Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 3rd Dec, 2021

Militaria and Ethnographica Sales encompass items across diverse areas of collecting, from European and Eastern armour to 18th and 19th century firearms, military uniforms and documents, edged weapons, World War I and World War II ephemera, masonic regalia and medals.

Also included are a vast range of objects created in the early 20th century or earlier by indigenous cultures around the world, from early American civilisations to African tribes and Polynesian island cultures, incorporating religious idols, domestic and ritual objects, figurative sculpture, jewellery and weapons of all descriptions.

 

 

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