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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 111

Four: Captain M.C. Vyvyan, Kent Home Guard, Late Machine Gun Corps and Natal Carbineers
1914-15 Star (Pte. M.C. Vyvyan 1st M.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. M.C. Vyvyan.); Defence Medal, very fine

Four: Captain F. Farmer, Kent Home Guard, Late London Regiment
1914-15 Star (3129, Pte. F. Farmer, 6-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3129. Pte. F. Farmer. 6-Lond. R.); Defence Medal, good very fine, with named card box of issue for the Defence Medal, addressed to 'Captain F. Farmer, 45 College Road, Maidstone, Kent'; the recipient's Silver War Badge, the reverse numbered '97278', pin reaffixed on reverse; cap badge; and cloth unit insignia

Four: Private S.L. Colvill, Kent Home Guard, Late Northamptonshire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (59545 Pte. S. Colvil. North'n. R.); Defence Medal; Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R. (Stanley Lewis Colvill), good very fine, with the recipient's two card and one metal identity tags; the recipient's named Home Guard Service Certificate; Bestowal Document for the Imperial Service Medal, dated 29.11.1955; and Soldier's New Testament

Three: Corporal J.H. Woolgar, Kent Home Guard, Late Royal Air Force and East Surrey Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (114729. A. Cpl. J.H. Woolgar. R.A.F.), surname partially officially corrected on both; Defence Medal, toned, extremely fine, with Army Council enclosure and named card box of issue for the Defence Medal, addressed to 'Mr. J.H. Woolgar, 105 Eversley Avenue, Barnehurst, Bexleyheath, Kent'

Pair: Superintendent H.R. Jenkins, Kent Home Guard, Later Kent Police Force
Defence Medal; Police Long Service Medal, E.II.R. (Supt. Herbert R. Jenkins), good very fine, with Army Council enclosure and named card box of issue for the Defence Medal, addressed to 'Mr. H.R. Jenkins, 3 Mapleside, Bidborough, Kent'; the recipient's St. John Ambulance Association badge (A123574 Herbert Jenkins); Grand Patron's Badge (Bro. H.R. Jenkins No.3609); and two related letters

Pair: Private W. Noble, Kent Home Guard
Defence Medal (Vol. W. Noble. Kent H.G.), impressed 'Boots' style; Service Medal of the Order of St. John (35614. Pte. W. Noble. Kent. S.J.A.B. 1943), very fine

One: Second Lieutenant D.W.M. Taylor, Kent Home Guard
Defence Medal, good very fine, with the recipient's named Home Guard Service Certificate

One: Private A.J. Tappin, Kent Home Guard
Defence Medal, nearly very fine, with the recipient's named Home Guard Service Certificate, Army Council enclosure, and Old Comrades Association Membership card

One: Lance-Corporal G. Wood, Kent Home Guard
Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine, with a prize medal, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1939), the reverse engraved '22nd. Batt. K.H.G. 1943.'; the recipient's named Commander-in-Chief Certificate of Appreciation, dated 4.6.1943; and two photographs of the recipient

One: Private B.W. Wright, Kent Home Guard
Defence Medal, good very fine, with the recipient's named Home Guard Service Certificate, and accompanying envelope, addressed to 'B.W. Wright, Esq., 30 Windermere Road, West Wickham, Kent'

Defence Medal (Lt. Col. F Briggs. 56 Bat. Kent H.G.), contemporarily engraved in upright serif capitals, good very fine

One: Company Quarter Master Sergeant J.A. Rogers, Kent Home Guard, Later Royal Fusiliers and East Surrey Regiment
War Medal, good very fine, with the recipient's Home Guard Certificate of Proficiency; the recipient's Soldier's Release Book, and various call up and release letters and documents; together with various other documents and insignia relating to the Kent Home Guard (lot)

Captain Maurice Courtenay Vyvyan, (1891-1980), born Godalming, Surrey; educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; served during the Great War with the Natal Carbineers and the South African Machine Gun Corps in German South West Africa from 8.5.1915; enlisted as a Private, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, 13.3.1916; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps, 5.8.1916; promoted Lieutenant, 5.2.1918; wounded by gun shot to the right arm on the Western Front, 1.6.1918; promoted Captain, 1.2.1941, and served with the 24th (Malling) Battalion, Kent Home Guard.

Captain Frederick Farmer, served with the 6th Battalion, London Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 18.3.1915; discharged, 24.8.1916, and awarded Silver War Badge; promoted Lieutenant, 11th (Maidstone) Battalion, Kent Home Guard, February 1941; subsequently advanced Captain.

I.S.M. London Gazette 29.11.1955 Colvill, Stanley Lewis, Machinist, H.M. Dockyard, Chatham

59545 Private Stanley Lewis Colvill, (1895-1982), born Chatham, Kent; served in the 31st (Dockyard) Battalion, Kent Home Guard, 19.10.1942 - 31.12.1944; died Chatham, Kent.

114729 Corporal John Harold Woolgar, born 1891; enlisted in the East Surrey Regiment, 11.10.1915, and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 2.8.1917; transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, 12.1.1918; promoted Corporal, 25.3.1918; subsequently served with the Kent Home Guard.

Second Lieutenant Douglas W.M. Taylor, Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 16.7.1941, and served with the 19th (Farningham) Battalion, Kent Home Guard, 22.6.1940 - 31.12.1944

Private Arthur James Tappin, served with the 28th (1st Southern Railway) Battalion, Kent Home Guard, 22.7.1940 - 31.12.1944.

Lance-Corporal George Wood, served with the 22nd (Tunbridge Wells) Battalion, Kent Home Guard

Private Bernard William Wright served with the 51st (Bromley) Battalion, Kent Home Guard, 13.7.1940 - 31.12.1944.

Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Briggs, Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 13th (Kent) Medium Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery, 9.6.1921; subsequently served as Commanding Officer, 56th (Erith) Battalion, Kent Home Guard.

14815329 Company Quarter Master Sergeant John Arthur Rogers, served with the 21st (Tonbridge) Battalion, Kent Home Guard; subsequently served with the Royal Fusiliers, 14.9.1944; transferred to the East Surrey Regiment, 13.12.1946.

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