3rd Dec, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
75
Lieutenant John Noel Milsum O.B.E., 1 Parak Bn., F.M.S. Volunteer Force: - three medals comprising 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star and War Medal, together with a Japanese Prisoner of War identity badge, Japanese bank notes and a large quantity of related ephemera, photographs and photocopied research material including reports from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew where he began his career, firstly employed at Kew from June 1912 until September 1913 when he left to go to work for the Department of Agriculture, Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States. The Supplement to the London Gazette for 1 January 1946 records him as receiving his O.B.E. for services during internment (He was a Prisoner of War and worked on the Siam Railway). The letters include hand written examples from his POW companions congratulating him on his award. The O.B.E. is not included with this lot.
Sold for £450
Estimated at £80 - £120
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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