Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Squadron Leader O. S. Holmes, C.B.E., Auxiliary Air Force, who served as Lord Mayor of Sheffield in Coronation Year 1953

British War and Victory Medals (318573 F/Cadet. O. S. Holmes. R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Act. Sqn. Ldr. O. S. Holmes. A.A.F.); together with the recipient’s seven related miniature awards, including the C.B.E., mounted as worn; the recipient’s Incorporated Sales Managers’ Association Medal, silver and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘O. S. Holmes, Sheffield Branch, 1935 to 1936’, with top ‘Branch Past Chairman’ riband bar; and another Incorporated Sales Managers’ Association Medal, unnamed, good very fine (8) £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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C.B.E. London Gazette 2 June 1962: Alderman Oliver Spencer Holmes, J.P.
‘For political and public services in Sheffield.’

Oliver Spencer Holmes was born on 3 November 1899 and joined the Royal Air Force as a Flight Cadet on 29 April 1918. He saw further service with the Auxiliary Air Force, as a Pilot Officer (Balloon) from 6 May 1939, and was awarded his Air Efficiency Award per Air Ministry Order 694 of 1948. He was awarded the Coronation Medal in 1953 whilst serving as Lord Mayor of Sheffield, and was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his political and public services a decade later. He died in 1988.

Sold with copied research.