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№ 1493

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20 September 2013

Estimate: £450–£550

Eight: Warrant Officer N. E. W. Stanton, Royal Air Force, late Lancashire Fusiliers

British War and Victory Medals (56974 Pte., Lan. Fus.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (346974 Act/Sgt., R.A.F.); Iraq, Active Service Medal, with clasp (Southern Kurdistan 1930-31) engraved in Arabic script, unnamed, very fine and better (13) £450-550

346974 Acting Sergeant Stanton, R.A.F. was awarded the R.A.F. L.S. & G.C. in April 1937; appointed Warrant Officer on 15 March 1942.

Sold with two R.A.F. identity disks; the King’s Badge, in card box of issue; R.A.F. India Prize Medal, silvered metal, ‘Inter-Station Rifle Shooting Competition 1936 Winners Cpl. N. E. Stanton’, in case of issue; and another, bronze, ‘.... 1935 Runners-up Cpl. N. E. Stanton.’ Also with copied m.i.c. confirming pair and some other research.