Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Pair: Corporal W. Hills, Royal Air Force

British War and Victory Medals (321746 Cpl., R.A.F.), contact wear and edge bruising, otherwise good fine

Pair: Signalman R. Nicholson, Australian Women’s Army Service

Defence Medal 1939-45; Australian Service Medal 1939-45, both inscribed ‘VF. 389664 R. Nicholson’, together with several original portrait photographs, including one in uniform, both lacking suspension, otherwise very fine (4)
£30-50

Wallace Hills, who was born in Luton, Bedfordshire in 1896, originally served with the British Army in the Middle East, having enlisted in May 1915. He subsequently transferred to the Royal Air Force and appears to have commenced pilot training at No. 3 Cadet Wing in October 1918. Also entitled to the 1914-15 Star, Hills was transferred to the R.A.F. Reserve in April 1920.

Rita Nicholson, who was born in Victoria in May 1922, enlisted in the Australian Army in Melbourne in October 1942 and was appointed a Signalman in the Australian Women’s Army Service in September of the following year.