Lot 2068

Description

Group of Nineteen: Order of the British Empire (MBE) (Military); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star - bar - France and Germany; Africa Star - bar - South Africa 1942-43; Pacific Star - bar - Burma; Italy Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; British War Medal 1939-45 with M.I.D.; Australia Service Medal 1939-45; Australian Active Service Medal 1945-75 - two bars - Malaya; Vietnam; General Service Medal (EIIR) - bar - Malaya; Vietnam Meda; Australia Service Medal 1945-75 - bar - PNG; Defence Force Service Medal 1982-; National Service Medal; Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (EIIR) (copy) - three bars; South Vietnam Government Medal - bar - 1960; Netherlands Commemoration Medal - bar - East Asia, South Pacific 1942-1945; Bomber Command Medal (RAF). First to sixth medals unnamed, seventh, eighth and ninth medals impressed 401329 B.V.Tipping, tenth medal impressed 035364 Tipping B.V., eleventh medal impressed 035364 B.V.Tipping, twelfth and thirteenth medals engraved 035364 Tipping B.V., fourteenth medal engraved B.V.Tipping 035364, fifteenth and sixteenth medals engraved 035364 Tipping B.V., seventeenth medal engraved Tipping B.V., eighteenth and nineteenth medals unnamed. Extremely fine.

Bruce Victor Tipping. Flight Lieutenant 035364 (401329). Enl.01Feb1941 Dis.09Feb1946. M.B.E.: L.G. 01Jan1967 'Flight Lieutenant Tipping joined the Royal Australian Air Force in February 1941 after serving with the Australian Military Forces from January 1939. During World War II he flew on air operations in the United Kingdom, Middle East and Pacific as wireless operator. He was discharged from the R.A.A.F. in 1946 and re-enlisted in April 1951. During the Malayan Emergency, he completed a tour of operations in No.1 (B) Squadron as signaller and in 1954 transferred to the Administrative Branch. He subsequently changed to the Equipment Branch in 1964. Flight Lieutenant Tipping was posted to R.A.A.F. Transport Flight, Vietnam in July 1965. He carried out his appointments of Administrative officer, Defence Officer, Accounting Officer and Equipment Officer with outstanding ability and his devotion to duty enabled him to discharge his responsibilities in a generally thankless and uninteresting post, with the utmost efficiency. In recognition of his valuable service'. Together with miniature medals, ribbon bars and some research.