Militaria – two programmes for the Unveiling of the Statue o...

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£200 - £400

Militaria – two programmes for the Unveiling of the Statue of Admiral of the Fleet The Earl of Mountbatten of Burma, KG, PC, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, FRS, on Foreign Office Green by Her Majesty The Queen, Wednesday 2nd November 1983, sculptured by Franta Belsky, with a copy of the seating plan for stands A and B, invitation to Maj. R J Gresty for the ceremony with his entrance card and his card to the Reception at the Banqueting House, signed letter from Barbara Cartland to Rear Admiral L Townsend with a donation towards the statue, letter from R.K. Robertson to Gresty with a statement of work in the Book of Donors, in envelope, album containing 22 photographs of the ceremony, other photos, programme of the Unveiling and Dedication of a Memorial to the Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Thursday 14th February 1985, 3.30 p.m. at Westminster Abbey, with invitation and entrance card, HMS Kelly Re-Union Association Dinner menu, Crete May 23rd 1941, signed by Prince Charles, other ephemera , Christmas card signed by Mountbatten, 1954, album with photos of the Unveiling of the 1939-45 War Memorial, by H M The Queen at Kensington Barracks, Bedford, 11th Nov. 1950, album with photos of the tour of India 1945-47, Beds & Herts, and ???? Regt’s tour of Tripolitania, Libya, Malta, Egypt, 1947-54, Women’s Royal Naval Service album of Olive Valerie Thomas, OBE (later Gresty) from 1 January 1949 to her retirement 17 March 1984, with numerous photos, invitations, menus and cutting, etc., swagger stick with pommel of the Beds & Herts Regiment, by F N, Birmingham 1947, L 70cm, TG & Co. Ltd compass, Mk III, 1944, and other items (a lot)