Naval officers

 Royal Naval Officers Sword 1827 Pattern Officers sword issued by the Honorable East India Company 78cm single edged blade Brass folding hilt with Lion and Fouled Anchor etched onto blade Handle made from ray skin bound with copper wire and surrounded by brass. Very rare and collectible piece of history R4995 Postage R130, or can be collected. CPT

 REPLICA OF THE GERMAN NAVAL OFFICERS WATCH 1940'S WITH 15 PAGE BOOKLET ON THE HISTORY OF THE WATCH

Buy REPLICA OF THE GERMAN NAVAL OFFICERS WATCH 1940S WITH 15 PAGE BOOKLET ON THE HISTORY OF THE WATCH for R100.00

Buy GILT NAVAL OFFICERS DRESS BUTTONS-2 SOLD TOGETHER-DIAMETER 25MM- PRE 1901 for R250.00

  SADF Naval Training Command: A Guide for Junior Officers Exact images of the item/s on Auction: Good Used Condition Paperback - 68 Pages Registered Mail @ R 55.00  Postnet to Postnet @ R 100.00 Please have a look at all our other items.

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 2 WW2 Royal Navy Petty Officers Mess membership cards of Petty Officer L. Montgomery. This lot consists of: Petty Officers Mess, St. Mary's Barracks, Chatham card of L. Montgomery. This card is numbered 1157, and dated 21 November 1944. The card is in good condition. Petty Officers Mess, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham card of L. Montgomery. The card is numbered A1165, and dated 5 February 1943. The cards are in good condition. Great buy for the collector of WW2 memorabilia. Shipping note: This item falls into the 1kg - 5kg category (approximately 1kg). Please choose your delivery preference according to the rates stated under shipping. Combined postage is welcome, but please note the combined weight of the items, and choose delivery option according to the combined weight. Collection by the buyer is free - I will package your order securely. For international shipping, please request a quotation from me.

1983 first edition hardcover with dust jacket and 208 pages in good condition. R46 postage in SA. Three bookshop stamps in book. -Spearheading the British assault waves in every Allied invasion landing during the Second World War were parties of khaki-clad naval officers and ratings, whose principal tasks were to secure the beachhead in the teeth of enemy defensive fire and direct and control the arrival of successive waves of landing craft bringing ashore the main body of the fighting troops and their equipment. Above the famous Combined Operations badge on the shoulders of their battledress they wore a special flash which bore the words 'RN Commando', a distinction for which they were fully qualified.Not only were they required to control the invasion beaches and, until the landings were assured, remain on them for days on end with little rest or food and under enemy bombing and shelling, their only protection a slit trench, they were also expected to undertake a variety of roles unrelated to that for which they had been specially trained. Their work was considered by Force Commanders to be 'the most important and dangerous in any landing'.--------------------------------------Royal Navy Commandos took part in combined operations in Madagascar, at Dieppe, in North Africa, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, northern Italy and the Adriatic, the steaming, disease-ridden chaungs on the Arakan coast of Burma, and finally in Normandy itself and beyond up to the time of the collapse of the Third Reich.Few know even that Royal Naval Commandos existed, so that this is their previously untold story.

1983 first edition hardcover with dust jacket and 208 pages in good condition. R50 postage in SA. Three bookshop stamps in book. -Spearheading the British assault waves in every Allied invasion landing during the Second World War were parties of khaki-clad naval officers and ratings, whose principal tasks were to secure the beachhead in the teeth of enemy defensive fire and direct and control the arrival of successive waves of landing craft bringing ashore the main body of the fighting troops and their equipment. Above the famous Combined Operations badge on the shoulders of their battledress they wore a special flash which bore the words 'RN Commando', a distinction for which they were fully qualified.Not only were they required to control the invasion beaches and, until the landings were assured, remain on them for days on end with little rest or food and under enemy bombing and shelling, their only protection a slit trench, they were also expected to undertake a variety of roles unrelated to that for which they had been specially trained. Their work was considered by Force Commanders to be 'the most important and dangerous in any landing'.--------------------------------------Royal Navy Commandos took part in combined operations in Madagascar, at Dieppe, in North Africa, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, northern Italy and the Adriatic, the steaming, disease-ridden chaungs on the Arakan coast of Burma, and finally in Normandy itself and beyond up to the time of the collapse of the Third Reich.Few know even that Royal Naval Commandos existed, so that this is their previously untold story.

Instituted:  June 1901  Ribbon:  3 equal parts of dark blue, white and dark blue.  Clasps:  None Comment: Known as the Conspicuous service  cross when instituted, it was awarded to warrant and subordinate officers of the Royal Navy who were ineligible for the DSO. In October 1914 it was renamed the DIstinguished Service Cross and thrown open to all naval officers below the rank of lieutenant-commander.     

S.A.S Donkin The Navy & Port Elizabeth  Compiled By: Lt. S. van Soelen S.A.N (C.F.) (Ret)  **Scarce* A limited edition hardcover nbr 166/300 published by Naval Officers Association in 1994 Blue leatherette covers with gold writing to the spine & front cover, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions a nice copy Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation Abe #  

Russia, Russian Cities, Kronstadt, Cronstadt, Kotlin Island, Naval Cathedral Edition Technical Specs Presentation Country:   Metal Purity:    Gold Plated, Gilded Box:   Year of Issue:   Weight:   1 oz CoA:   Face Value:   Dimensions:   40     Quality:       Mintage:     New token with capsule The Naval cathedral of Saint Nicholas in Kronstadt is a Russian Orthodox cathedral built in 1903¿1913 as the main church of the Russian Navy and dedicated to all fallen seamen. The cathedral was closed in 1929, was converted to a cinema, a House of Officers (1939) and a museum of the Navy (1980). The Russian Orthodox Church reinstalled the cross on the main dome in 2002 and served the first Divine Liturgy in the cathedral in 2005. In 2013, the Patriarch of all Russia, with Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev and his spouse attending, conducted the ceremony of grand reconsecration in the now fully restored cathedral. ____________________________________________________  Feel free to e-mail me with any questions.

 ORIGINAL cap badge with lugs intact.Very rare badge The South African Aviation Corps was formally gazetted as part of the U.D.F. in Government Notice No 130 dated 29 January 1915 and published in the Government Gazette of 5 February 1915. The ground staff for the GSWA campaign had been recruited in South Africa. Workshops, two steel hangers and an aerodrome had been built at Walvis Bay. The unit was commanded by Major G.P. Wallace and it consisted of 17 officers and 150 men. They were supplied with steel-framed Henri Farman aircraft. Three flying officers had been attached from the Royal Naval Air Service and two BE2C aircraft had accompanied them. Air operations commenced from 6 May 1915 and the Farmans were initially used for reconnaissance tasks. They were later also used as bombers with fitted racks. They first saw action at Karabib and operations later moved to Omaruru, Kalkveld, Otavi and Otjiwarongo. When the unit had to move northwards, advance working groups were required to prepare landing grounds in the thick bush that was found in the Northern areas of operations. After the German surrender in GSWA on 9 July 1915, personnel were placed at the disposal of the Royal Flying Corps. LOCAL BUYER R110 POSTNET OT FEDEX OVERSEAS BIDDER DHL R480 OR SAPO(RISKY)R220  

1960 hardcover with dust jacket and 256 pages in good secondhand condition. Browning to all pages edges. 6 June, 1944. 156,000 troops from 12 different countries, 11,000 aircraft, 7,000 naval vessels, 24 hours. D-Day - the beginning of the Allied invasion of Hitler's formidable 'Fortress Europe' - was the largest amphibious invasion in history. There has never been a battle like it, before or since. But beyond the statistics and over sixty years on, what is it about the events of D-Day that remain so compelling? The courage of the men who fought and died on the beaches of France? The sheer boldness of the invasion plan? Or the fact that this, Rommel's 'longest day', heralded the beginning of the end of World War II. One of the defining battles of the war, D-Day is scored into the imagination as the moment when the darkness of the Third Reich began to be swept away. This is the story of D-Day, told through the voices of over 1,000 survivors - from high-ranking Allied and German officers, to the paratroopers who landed in Normandy before dawn, the infantry who struggled ashore and the German troops who defended the coast.Cornelius Ryan captures the horror and the glory of D-Day, relating in emotive and compelling detail the years of inspired tactical planning that led up to the invasion, its epic implementation and every stroke of luck and individual act of heroism that would later define the battle. In the words of its author, The Longest Day is a story not of war, but of the courage of man.