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Four: Sergeant D. F. H. Fraser, Army Service Corps, later Coventry Special Constabulary, who served as a Special Constable during the Coventry Blitz, and was on duty during the night of the devastating air raid on 14-15 November 1940 1914 Star (MS-3688 Cpl. D. F. H. Fraser. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (MS-3688 Sjt. D. F. H. Fraser. A.S.C.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Donald F. H. Fraser); together with the recipient’s riband bar which additionally has a rosette on the 1914 Star riband, good very fine (4) £240-£280 --- Donald Frederick Henry Fraser was born in 1885 and attested for the Army Service Corps, serving with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 September 1914 (although there is no indication on his Medal Index Card of him being awarded a bar to his 1914 Star). Demobilised on 10 May 1919, he subsequently enlisted in the Special Constabulary, and served during the Second World War with the Coventry Special Constabulary; notably he was on duty on the night of 14-15 November 1940, on which night Coventry suffered its most severe enemy air raid of the war. Sold together with the recipient’s ring binder hand written pocket diary recording his Special Constabulary duties from the period 24 April 1939 to 5 May 1941, the entry for the night of 14-15 November 1940 reading ‘On patrol on Beat 65, did not report on or off duty owing to heavy air raid which lasted about 12 hours. The centre of Coventry burnt & bombed out, my house suffered but wife & child uninjured’; several photographic portraits of the recipient in Great War uniform and as a Special Constable; and other ephemera.
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Four: Sergeant D. F. H. Fraser, Army Service Corps, later Coventry Special Constabulary, who served as a Special Constable during the Coventry Blitz, and was on duty during the night of the devastating air raid on 14-15 November 1940 1914 Star (MS-3688 Cpl. D. F. H. Fraser. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (MS-3688 Sjt. D. F. H. Fraser. A.S.C.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Donald F. H. Fraser); together with the recipient’s riband bar which additionally has a rosette on the 1914 Star riband, good very fine (4) £240-£280 --- Donald Frederick Henry Fraser was born in 1885 and attested for the Army Service Corps, serving with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 September 1914 (although there is no indication on his Medal Index Card of him being awarded a bar to his 1914 Star). Demobilised on 10 May 1919, he subsequently enlisted in the Special Constabulary, and served during the Second World War with the Coventry Special Constabulary; notably he was on duty on the night of 14-15 November 1940, on which night Coventry suffered its most severe enemy air raid of the war. Sold together with the recipient’s ring binder hand written pocket diary recording his Special Constabulary duties from the period 24 April 1939 to 5 May 1941, the entry for the night of 14-15 November 1940 reading ‘On patrol on Beat 65, did not report on or off duty owing to heavy air raid which lasted about 12 hours. The centre of Coventry burnt & bombed out, my house suffered but wife & child uninjured’; several photographic portraits of the recipient in Great War uniform and as a Special Constable; and other ephemera.
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