Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Gunner J. Lawrie, Royal Artillery

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, 1st type, silver (James Lawrie), complete with ‘Gallantry’ brooch bar, in Elkington case of issue, extremely fine (lot) £280-£320

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2008.

Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, awarded 24 January 1934, ‘... in respect of the rescue by you of a boy from drowning in the River Clyde at Glasgow Green on 3rd September last’.

The medals sold with a wealth of associated material, including: Second World War medals card forwarding box with partial address label - ‘.... Lawrie, Chittys’ Lane, Dagenham, Essex’; riband bar; Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal certificate of award (folded and repaired); Certificate of Transfer to the Army Reserve, dated 26 April 1946 - Gunner 1686706 James Lawrie, served in the R.A. L.A.A.; Day School Certificate, for attendance at Blantyre R.C. Public School; Transport and General Workers’ Union Membership Cards, 1940-49 (7); Amalgamated Engineering Union Membership Card, 1950; Amalgamated Engineering Union Shop Steward’s Credential Card, 1953 - recipient was a Shop Steward at the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham; pair of cufflinks in 10ct. white gold, 15.95g. - for 25 Years Service at Ford, in card box; sundry wartime photographs; other photographs in album (some loose), several recording his post-war visit to China; a number of post-war letters; Booklet: A Short History of the Seventh Armoured Division, October 1938 - May 1943; Book (repaired), A Short History of the Seventh Armoured Division, June 1943 - July 1945; Book: The British Army; several other booklets including; Trade Unions in People’s China (2); The Trade Union Law of the People’s Republic of China; Chinese Workers March Towards Socialism; Eyewitness! Poland.