Commonwealth Medal collections.

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Sgt. Peter Francis Snape, 78 Sqdn RAFVR.

KIA 30th July 1943 over Hamburg on a second wave that night, he flew a Halifax and was twenty two years old when he died.

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Sgt. Snapes medals. I've the wax packets these came in also

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[LuftMike]

Here's my contribution:
First up is a group to Major Hugh Carfrae Dunlop, Officer Commanding the Huron Regiment Canadian Militia. I also have several photos and his service record as well. I'm also happy to say that he came from my hometown of Goderich Ontario, and owned the town pharmacy in the early years before the war. There's photos of the pharmacy in the record as well. The ribbon on the coronation medal is severely faded...the green should actually be blue lol.



Next is the medal bar to Lt. Col. H.J Allin of the Huron Regiment, era unknown, but I would say he was a Captain in world war one (described as such on the efficiency medal) and a Lt. Col. by world war two. I don't really have any info on this individual. Anyone care to help?

[Andy Harris]

Disregard

[Andy Harris]

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...t=13663&page=3

I posted mine in the above thread

[Lone Pine]

Great collection Lone Pine ,the framing is fantastic .Rob.

Thanks Rob
Both those sets were framed by the families that they came from. I bought them as is. The Tobruk group came with a wonderful photo album full of personally taken photo's from Tobruk and other places in North Africa.
Bruce

[slayer]

Hi Bruce, it always makes me wonder why family's would sell medals that there relatives earned during the war ?

[yellow]

The reason why people sell medals is no more complicated than the fact they need money. They wouldnt sell their TV set before medals because the TV can actually be used.

With local government slapping on a hundred pounds onto the council tax bill per month, old people are being forced to sell medals just so they dont go to prison.

Great thread! My tastes run a bit earlier.
Waterloo Campaign Medal with to Thomas Elson, 1st Regiment of (Kings) Dragoon Guards.

[Lone Pine]

The reason why people sell medals is no more complicated than the fact they need money. They wouldnt sell their TV set before medals because the TV can actually be used.

With local government slapping on a hundred pounds onto the council tax bill per month, old people are being forced to sell medals just so they dont go to prison.

Very sad but true sometimes. In the case of the ww1 Beersheba pair I have, I met the Grandson of Trooper Battersby at a hobby fair a few years ago. Through general conversation he mentioned he had the medals, jokeing with him I said if you ever want to sell them let me know. To my surprize he said that he only had one son and he didn't give a mouses donkey about them and that he was thinking of selling them. So I bought them.
Bruce

[Dubar1]

I have had in my possession a British War Medal, with the name "Major J.W. Flood, AIF" stamped on the edge, since the early 70s.

Story goes that my Welsh Grandfather won it in a poker game. My Grandfather was in the Merchant Marines prior to WWI, enlisted as a Private in the Cheshire Yeomanry during the war, then back as a Merchant Marine after. When my Grandmother came to live with us back in the late 60s she brought all of my Grandfather's things with her (he had died a few years earlier).

When my Grandmother died my mom gave all my grandfather's medals and paperwork to me, including the Major's medal. Until the internet I never knew what AIF stood for (Australian Imperial Force).

Yesterday I was trying to research Major Flood and ran across the AIF Database:

AIF DATABASE

I actually found a bit of information on the man. I then emailed the Admin of the site and he emailed me saying he would pass my email on to a friend of his that also has a site about lost medals:

LOST MEDALS AUSTRALIA

This morning I got an email from him with the Major's service record!!! Now they are searching for any living relatives so that I may return the medal to them.

The Major was a Medical Practitioner (doctor?) during the war. He also apparently played some professional cricket in the 1920s. Sad to hear he died in 1934.

Hopefully they'll be able to locate a relative so I can return the medal to his family. Even though I may be possibly losing the medal I have gotten a lot of enjoyment and satisfaction out of this. Without the internet none of this would have happened!

I also have my Grandfather's WW1 medals and will post photos later.

Bob

[slayer]

Bob, good to hear your trying to find the original recipients relatives nice one , maybe someone will reply or know if there's any relatives still alive and looking for these medals.

[Dave Alexander]

I thought Beersheba was in Palestine, not Egypt.