The General Service Medal awarded to Sergeant M. D. Burbridge, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, attached SAS, who was ambushed and killed by the IRA whilst travelling in plain clothes with another serviceman returning from Rosemount Police Station, 1 April 1982. Their unmarked van was riddled by machine gun bullets near the Creggan Estate, and just outside of St. Eugene’s Catholic Cathedral General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24098414 LCpl. M. D. Burbridge. REME.) good very fine £1,200-£1,600 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 1998. Michael David Burbridge was born in August 1950, and enlisted in the Army in September 1966. He was serving on his third tour of Northern Ireland when he was killed during an ambush, 1 April 1982: ‘Two soldiers were murdered in a Londonderry ambush yesterday by Provisional IRA terrorists armed with a machine gun. Cpl Michael Ward, 29, of the Royal Signals, and Sgt Michael Burbridge, 31, of the REME, were hit by a hail of shots as they drove in an unmarked Mini van. Both men were armed, but were wearing civilian clothes. They were returning to barracks after completing maintenance work on radio equipment at a police station [Rosemount] near the republican Creggan estate. The gunmen had taken over a flat overlooking a road junction, holding the seven students who occupy the flat hostage since Wednesday night. More than 50 shots were fired at the van as it reached the crossroads. The vehicle then careered out of control down a one-way street and crashed into a baker’s shop. The shooting happened close to St Eugene’s Roman Catholic Cathedral and one of the first to reach the van was the Bishop of Derry, Dr Edward Daly, whose residence adjoins the cathedral. Cpl Ward was married with a six year old son and came from south west London. Sgt Burbridge was divorced and his parents live in south Oxfordshire. Yesterday’s killings were exactly a week after a similar ambush in West Belfast when three members of the Royal Green Jackets were murdered by the Provisional IRA. On Sunday the IRA shot dead a senior police officer outside his church.’ (photocopy of newspaper cutting included with the lot refers). Both Burbridge and Ward, were in fact attached to the SAS at this time, and the following is given in Raymond Murray’s The SAS in Ireland: In the period 1981-87 the SAS shot dead as many as 26 people in Northern Ireland and one man drowned escaping from them... In the same period four ‘SAS men were shot dead by the IRA. Sergeant Michael Burbridge (parent regiment, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) aged 31, from South Oxfordshire and 29 year old Corporal Michael Ward (parent regiment, the Royal Corps of Signals), from south-west London were killed in a hail of bullets in an IRA ambush on 1 April 1982. They were dressed in plain clothes and were travelling from the Army/RUC post at Rosemount, Derry in a grey van, when the attack took place at 11.46am at Creggan Street just outside St. Eugene’s Cathedral. Four IRA men took part in the attack. They occupied a second floor flat at the junction of Creggan Road and Infirmary Road 15 hours before the shooting. As the van approached the junction, three of the IRA men, two of them armed with high velocity automatic rifles, and one with a handgun acting as back-up, stepped out in front of it and fired about 30 shots. The shooting was heard in the nearby parochial house. One of the priests gave the last rites. Priest and people lifted men out of the van to the street. The Bishop of Derry, Dr Edward Daly, was also on the scene within minutes. He said, “The men had been riddled. It was an awful sight. A lot of people were hysterical. It is another terrible deed which demeans us all.’ Sergeant Burbridge is buried in Aldershot Military Cemetery, Hampshire. Sold with a letter from Captain T. Lindsay, R.E.M.E., 8th Infantry Brigade, Londonderry, addressed to Burbridge’s widow at Farnham Surrey, dated 8 December 1982, ‘At long last I am pleased to forward the medal which belonged to your late husband. I am to understand that the medal is for your son Darren and if in fact this is correct I would appreciate it if you would pass the medal on to him.’ The letter has been cut in two with the result that one line of the text is missing; copied certificate of service and other research.
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German Second World War Luftwaffe Trade Patches. 10 Luftwaffe trade patches, ncos and officers. Officers silver wire aerial bomb armourer; officers qualified telephone operator, silver bullion weave on officers quality cloth; Qualified telephone operator with nco lace; qualified telephone operator with nco edging lace; qualified directional radio operator with nco lace; medical personnel with nco lace; armourer with nco lace; armourer with machine embroidered nco circular edging; qualified telephone operator with nco lace; qualified teletype operator with nco lace. All have residue of glue and paper on the reverse side where removed from a collectors display board, good condition (10) £120-£160
German Second World War Luftwaffe Trade Patches. 10 individual enlisted ranks trade patches, all machine embroidered on Luftwaffe blue grey backing cloth. Qualified teletype operator; qualified radio operator; graduate from technical flight school; ordnance personnel; armourer; medical personal; aerial bomb armourer; qualified directional radio operator; qualified sound location operator; aircraft radio man. All have residue of glue and paper on the reverse side where removed from a collectors display board, generally good condition (10) £100-£140
Portrait of the first human to journey into outer space, Yuri GagarinVostok 1, 12 April 1961Vintage gelatin silver press print on fibre-based paper, 23 x 18 cm (9 x 7 in), with cropping marks, Novosti Press Agency stamps and a caption on the versoProvenance: from Tim Furniss collectionFootnotes:'Because no one could be sure how Gagarin would respond to weightlessness, Vostok 1 was programmed to operate automatically (...) Only in an emergency would Gagarin himself be allowed to take control - and then only after he had punched a three digit code-number into a special locking device on the instrument panel. at 7:50 a.m. Moscow Time, Gagarin felt the rocket come to life and surge upwards, and said over the radio, 'Payekhali!' - 'Let's Go!' (...) For the next 108 minutes Gagarin made history.' (Chaikin, Space, )Condition Report: Few minor and expected creases, otherwise goodCondition Report Disclaimer
Alan Shepard and 16mm television cameraThree views of the crew deploying scientific experiments on the lunar surface; the colour photograph was taken by the 16mm television cameraApollo 14, 5 February 1971Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fibre-based paper, 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in), first one BLACK NUMBERED NASA AS14-67-9376 [second one NASA AS14-67-938], and one vintage chromogenic print on fibre-based Kodak paper with A KODAK PAPER watermarks on the verso [NASA S-71-19509]Footnotes:Shepard and Mitchell spent a total of 33.5 hours on the Moon and performed two extra-vehicular activities (EVAs, or "moonwalks"), totalling 9 hours and 23 minutes. Much of the first EVA was used to deploy a set of experiments, some of which continued to radio data back to Earth until September 1977. Among these was a seismometer, which detected thousands of moonquakes and helped to determine the structure of the Moon's interior. Other instruments measured the composition of the solar wind and the Moon's tenuous atmosphere and plasma environment. Shepard and Mitchell also collected rock and soil samples up to 200 meters west of the landing site.
Four rare and unpublished images depicting views of the lunar activities performed during EVA 3 and transmitted by the RCA TV camera mounted on the lunar roverApollo 16, 16-27 April 1979Four vintage gelatin silver prints on fibre-based paper, 25.3 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 in), with RCA (Radio Corporation of America) stamps numbered 72-4-600, 72-4-583, 72-4-584 and 72-4-556 on verso
An oblique view of the lunar surface and the lunar horizon transmitted by the first robotic probe to soft land on the Moon, Soviet Luna 9Luna 9, 2 February 1966Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 20.5 x 25.7 cm (8 x 10 in), an AP Wirephoto print with the APW press caption across the front and another one attached to the verso (dated 4 February 1966)Footnotes:Luna 9 was the first robotic spacecraft to successfully soft land on the Moon in 1966. It preceded the US Surveyor 1 by around 4 months.After touchdown a television camera erected from the probe and the system began a photographic survey of the lunar environment. Seven radio sessions with a total of 8 hours and 5 minutes were transmitted, as well as three series of TV pictures. After assembly the photographs gave a panoramic view of the immediate lunar surface.Although the pictures of the Moon were initially not released by Soviet authorities, their signal format was found to be similar to the Radiofax signal universally used by newspapers to transmit pictures. Thus, Jodrell Bank Observatory near Manchester was able to instantly intercept, decode and publish Luna 9's first photographs from the Moon's surface
A collection of Lesney 1-75 series military vehicles to include 64 Scammell Breakdown Truck, 67 "Saladin" Armoured Car, 54 Saracen Personnel Carrier, Major Pack 3 Sankey 50 ton Tank Transporter and Centurian Tank Mark III, 61 Ferret Scout Car, 63 Service Ambulance, 12 Land Rover Series II, 68 Austin Mk 2 Radio Truck, 55 D.U.K.W., 71 Austin 200 Gallon Water Truck, 62 General Service Lorry and 49 M3 Personnel Carrier (13)
FIVE BOXES AND LOOSE METALWARES, BOOKS, SPORTING EPHEMERA, PICTURES AND SUNDRY ITEMS, to include plated and stainless steel bowls, serving dishes, bon bon dish, cruet set, teapot, etc makers to include Alessi, Viners and Joseph Rodgers & Sons, two twentieth century mantel clocks, a West German clock with stone case, a Roberts DAB digital portable radio, eleven framed prints and original artwork largest measures approximately 67cm x 56.5cm, a Garbolino Viper net 100 landing net handle, approximately thirty books to include biographies, fiction and various non-fiction titles, OS maps, 1960s Met Office reports, England Cricket programmes 2006-2008, Stoke City FC programmes and newspaper tributes to Sir Stanley Matthews, etc (sd) (5 BOXES + LOOSE)
Huey Morgan Signed 10x8 Colour Photograph. Morgan Is An American Musician Best Known As The Frontman Of Rock/Hip Hop Band Fun Lovin' Criminals. Morgan Performs Both Vocals And Guitar And Combines Rock, Hip Hop, Jazz, Reggae, And Funk Influences In His Music. He Is Also A Music Presenter For BBC Radio And Has Made Film And TV Appearances. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Scalextric, Exin - A collection of Scalextric toys and trackside accessories. Lot includes a Scalextric Compact Dibucar (appears Mint in Very Good Box) ; Scalextric Exin Radio Control System (appears Mint in Good box) ; Scalextric C275 Autostart and a Scalextric C702 Control Tower (both appear Good with signs of play in Fair - Fair Plus boxes) with a boxed vintage A230 Grand Bridge Spans.(appears Good in Fair box). (This does not constitute a guarantee)
Matchbox - K'Nex - Thunderbirds - A limited edition BBC Radio Times 1992 The Thunderbirds Collection Commemorative Set featuring Thunderbird 1, 2, 3, 4, Pod and Lady Penelope's FAB1 Rolls Royce. Also a K'Nex building set in a carry case. The models appear Near Mint with only a couple of minor marks, the box is in Good condition with light wear. The K'Nex appears in Very Good condition with instruction book. (This does not constitute a guarantee) (2)
Accucraft 32mm scale gas-powered radio-controlled model of a 4-6-0 Hunslet locomotive, finished in maroon and named Lilian Edith, well made example housed in a wooden home made carry case and original Accucraft Box, with documentation relating to running history, also sold with a Chuffed 2 Bits Handset, possibly by Larry Cheeseman
Peter Angus Locomotives and Mike Lax 32mm scale gas-powered radio-controlled model of a Darjeeling "Sivok" Works 0-4-0 locomotive, numbered 282 to inside of plaque with makers plaque, supplied with a collection of paperwork relating to testing, certification, running history, purchase history and more, sold with a Chuffed 2 Bits Handset and a Wooden Carry Case, a rare example
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