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Auction: 1005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 86

x Six: Flight Sergeant J.L. Gunter, South African Air Force South African Medal for Korea (P8211 J.L. Gunter); South African Permanent Force Good Service Medal, officially numbered ´140´; War Medal (607603 J.L. Gunter); Africa Service Medal (607603 J.L. Gunter); South Korea, Republic, War Service Medal, bronze, unnamed as issued; United Nations Medal for Korea, English language version (P.8211 J.L. Gunter), the awards officially named as to South African personnel, very fine or better, a scarce combination, together with United States of America, Presidential Unit Citation riband bar, and the following official documents &c.: - Bestowal Document for the Permanent Force Good Service Medal, named to P8211 Air Sergeant Jacobus Lodewikus Gunter, and dated 7.9.1962 - Bestowal Document for the Korean War Service Medal, named to P8211 Air/Cpl J.L. Gunter, South African Forces in the Far East - Photograph of Members of No.2 "Cheetah" Squadron mobilizing for Korea, September 1950 - Photograph of the recipient at work on a S.A.A.F. De Havilland Vampire Jet Fighter (6) Estimate £ 600-800 P8211 Jacobus Lodewikus Gunter, born Belfast, Transvaal, South Africa, 6.4.1927; enlisted in the South African Air Force, 1.5.1944; discharged 13.6.1946; re-enlisted, South African Air Force, 14.6.1946; promoted Corporal, 1.7.1949; served with No.2 ´Cheetah´ Squadron, S.A.A.F. during the Korean War, 26.9.1950-22.5.1952, during which the Squadron were flying both Mustangs and later Sabre-Jet fighters; Sergeant, 1.7.1953; Flight Sergeant, 1.4.1962; discharged, 30.4.1965. Provenance: Spink, August 1975.

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