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World War Two
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Medal awarded to sergeant who freed fellow gunner when bailing among lots at Baldwin’s
21 September 2024Air gunner Sergeant Derrick John Allen was returning from an operation to Dusseldorf when his Lancaster was attacked several times – forcing the crew to bail.
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Catalogue of Churchill memorabilia spells V for valuable
26 July 2024From unpublished writings to a clothes brush from his valet, collection marks the 150th anniversary year of Sir Winston Churchill’s birth
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New book commemorates D-Day landings in 80 objects
03 June 2024'D-Day in 80 Objects' tells the story of the famous operation through objects selected by museums in the UK and US
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Pick of the week: Poster recruiting Jewish women to the war effort triples estimate at auction
18 March 2024Second World War posters recruiting British and American women to the war effort are a familiar sight at auction.
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Massive collection of Second World War pictures recall dealers' boyhood
03 April 2023A personal collection of Second World War pictures compiled by dealer John Noott over more than 40 years is on display at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.
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Cap owned by a real SAS 'rogue hero' takes £16,000 at Kent auction
03 November 2022The SAS has never been short of eager collectors wanting to splash out for militaria connected with the British special forces unit.
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Medals and militaria: The Grimsby exiles
31 October 2022Despite their sterling service with the Allies, a large number of Polish soldiers could not return home when the fighting ended, as a fascinating archive reveals.
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Attackers under the sea and above the waves
31 October 2022In 1888, in response to a tender issued by the War Office, Prof Archibald Barr and Dr William Stroud submitted an application for an optical range-finder patent to the Patents Office.
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Life lost when saving others
15 August 2022Unique medal combinations will always catch a collector’s eye, particularly when accompanied by a highly emotive backstory.
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Logbook records bravery of a top RAF fighter pilot
27 June 2022The highlight of a Cornish auction on June 10 was an RAF logbook from Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot Flying Officer Arthur Peter Pease (1913-40).
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RAF Museum buys medals awarded to last surviving Tirpitz attacker from 617 (Dambuster) Squadron
03 February 2022The medal group awarded to the last surviving RAF pilot of 617 (Dambuster) Squadron to attack the German battleship Tirpitz has been sold to the RAF Museum via a sale arranged by London auction house Dix Noonan Webb.
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Father and son medal group take flight in Gloucestershire sale
20 September 2021Serving in the Glider Pilot Regiment was a tough task during the Second World War.
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Battle of Britain medal groups hit six figures
07 June 2021Two impressive Battle of Britain medal groups offered a day apart at separate auctions both took six-figure sums.
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Historic archive of Second World War floating harbour designer bought at auction by museum
24 March 2020An historic archive belonging to the engineer who oversaw the design of the Mulberry Harbours in the Second World War has been bought by a museum after being offered at Mitchells’ auction last week.
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Cumbrian archive offered at auction recalls D-Day’s floating harbours
09 March 2020An historic archive belonging to the engineer who oversaw the design of the Mulberry Harbours in the Second World War comes to auction in Cumbria later this month.
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‘Exceptional’ wartime sketches bring high demand at Dominic Winter
25 November 2019A group of “historically important” watercolour and pencil drawings of the London Blitz sparked a bidding war at Cirencester saleroom Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium).
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Classic special forces beret brings a very special price
13 May 2019A classic SAS beige beret from the Second World War has sold for what is believed to be a record-breaking £17,500 hammer price.
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Remarkable RAF fighter ace diary sells at Cambridge auction
21 August 2017Personal and unique insights into warfare score highly at auction. So it proved at Cambridge firm Cheffins (22.5% buyer’s premium) in The Connoisseurs Sale on July 6, when a journal revealing the private thoughts of a Second World War fighter ace credited with more enemy ‘kills’ than any other British pilot doubled the top estimate to sell for £16,000.
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Dunkirk 1940 evacuation in movie form and now original photos up at auction
21 July 2017With Christopher Nolan’s epic new film Dunkirk released today in the UK, it is a perfect time to focus on still rather than moving images which reveal the original picture of the 1940 evacuation.
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Personal view of Churchill revealed in photo album
10 April 2017A photo collection sold at C&T formed part of an archive relating to Brenda Long, secretary to General Sir H Ismay (later Lord Ismay), Chief of Staff to Sir Winston Churchill from mid-1944 until the end of 1945.
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