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Auction: 7029 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 421

Family Group: Pair: Ordinary Seaman G.E. Rider, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals (L. 8276 G.E. Rider. O.S.2 R.N.), extremely fine, together with the remains of the damaged card case of issue War Medal, attributed to Sergeant R.G. Rider, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, extremely fine, together with the named Air Council enclosure; a Royal Life Saving Society Medal, 33mm, bronze, the reverse engraved ´R.G. Rider, July 1937´, in red leather case of issue; and the following documents and letters &c.: - Recipient´s Birth Certificate, dated 27.12.1921 - Recipient´s Baptism Certificate, dated 29.1.1922 - Recipient´s Confirmation Card, dated 31.5.1939 - St. John Ambulance Association Certificate certifying that the recipient has qualified to render ´First Aid to the Injured´, dated June 1941, together with a St. John Ambulance Association lapel badge - Correspondence between the recipient´s father, Mr. G.E. Rider, and the Air Ministry, regarding the possibility of the recipient´s body being repatriated to Britain, dated June-July 1942 -Two photographs of the Recipient´s grave, taken in 1975 (3) Estimate £ 20-30 1384428 Sergeant Ronald George Rider, born 27.12.1921, the son of Ordinary Seaman G.E. Rider; enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve; killed 29.4.1942, and is buried in Salisbury Pioneer Cemetery, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare Pioneer Cemetery, Zimbabwe).

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