Orders, Decorations & Medals - British Groups

Lot 3555    Session 13 (2.30pm Thursday 22nd November)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - British Groups

Estimate $200
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $180

GROUP OF FOUR: 1939-45 Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45; Africa General Service Medal 1902-56, (EIIR), - clasp - Kenya. First three medals unnamed as issued, E.4458 I.P. (R) W.E.Tubb on last medal. The named medal impressed. The last toned good extremely fine, the rest uncirculated.

Together with postage issue box for first three medals addressed to WOI W.E.Tubb, Box 53 El Doret, Kenya Coln. BEA., this box includes original cellophane medal packets, also issue box for last medal.

Walter Edwin Tubb was a motor mechanic who joined the RAF in 1939 as a member of ground crew servicing Lancaster Bombers at Croydon Aerodrome, London where he remained in service until war's end and attained the rank of Warrant Officer. In the late 1940s he emigrated to Kenya where he became the Chief Mechanic on a 50,000 acre coffee estate near Thika, 30 miles north of Nairobi. During the Mau-Mau Uprising (1952-64) he joined the Kenya Police Reserves.