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The important and excessively rare

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 1231

The important and excessively rare

Schätzpreis
40.000 £ - 50.000 £
ca. 67.619 $ - 84.523 $
Zuschlagspreis:
90.000 £
ca. 152.142 $
Beschreibung:

The important and excessively rare Second World War S.B.S. operations M.M. and Bar group of five awarded to Sergeant D. “Duggie” Pomford, South Lancashire Regiment: a pre-war champion amateur boxer - who later established and ran the famous Golden Gloves Club in Liverpool - he honed his fighting skills in No. 2 Special Service Brigade and No. 11 Commando under Keyes, V.C., prior to becoming a founder member of No. 1 Special Boat Section in 1941: he was subsequently twice decorated for his gallantry as a member ‘S’ Detachment, No. 1 Special Boat Squadron during hit and run raids on assorted islands of the Eastern Mediterranean in 1943-44 - fighting alongside a stunning cast of much decorated cut throats, among them Lassen, V.C. Military Medal, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar (3456406 Cpl. D. Pomford, S. Lan. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine or better (5) £40000-50000 Footnote ‘Pomford was popular and pleasant and, except when wearing (boxing) gloves, not normally violent but nobody tangled with him willingly - not even Busty Aubrey, who is regarded to this day as possibly the strongest man ever enlisted by the S.A.S.’ Anders Lassen, V.C., M.C. of the S.A.S., by Mike Langley, refers. Douglas “Duggie” Pomford, who was born in Liverpool in March 1920, traded his first tentative punches as a seven year old with the Dingle Club, the commencement of a highly successful career in amateur boxing in the period leading up to the outbreak of war, a career that witnessed him winning the Lancashire and Cheshire middleweight title and taking the champion Bruce Woodcock to the final round in the Northern Counties light heavyweight competition at Blackpool Tower - ‘I must have been giving away nine or 10 lbs. but lost only on a casting vote.’ Baptism of fire - Commando On enlisting in the South Lancashire Regiment in Preston in May 1940, he still got in plenty of boxing, winning Company, Regimental and Command competitions, fine work that also established him as a natural candidate for the Commandos - hence his appointment to No. 2 Special Service Brigade in December 1940, from whence he joined No. 11 Commando, bound for the Middle East as part of “Layforce”. Here, then, Pomford’s baptism of fire, for he participated in operations in Syria and elsewhere under Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, M.C. - shortly to win a posthumous V.C for his leadership of Operation “Flipper”, the attempt to capture Rommel at his H.Q. In fact it was as a result of the latter raid that the Commando was disbanded at the end of 1941 - a raid in which Pomford may well have been among the participants, albeit in the submarine Talisman, which had to withdraw owing to conditions off the coast. S.B.S. - founder member - M.M. Meanwhile, Major R. J. A. Courtney was recruiting likely candidates for a new clandestine force, and “Duggie” Pomford became a founding member of No. 1 Special Boat Section, Eastern Mediterranean Command. And, as might be expected of such a pugnacious character, quickly made his mark. A case in point being the following incident related by a fellow member of the S.B.S. in Mike Langley’s Anders Lassen, V.C., M.C. of the S.A.S.: ‘An R.A.F. Sergeant climbed aboard an S.A.S. lorry, wanting a lift without asking and obviously looking for trouble. He refused to leave and said so in a truculent manner. Pomford, only a Corporal, then stood up and said: “Sergeant, if you don’t leave, I’ll put you off.” The Sergeant sneered, “Who, you?” Pomford’s punch knocked him clean over the tailboard.’ Indeed frequent mention is made of Pomford in related reference works - not least the memoirs of his immediate C.O., Major David Sutherland - He Who Dares. So, too, in more recent publications, including Gavin Mortimer’s impressive illustrated history of The S.B.S. in World War II, in which appear photographs from the accompanying archive (see below). Of Pomford’s activities in 1942, little appears to be known, although in a newsp

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 1231
Auktion:
Datum:
25.06.2014 - 26.06.2014
Auktionshaus:
Dix Noonan Webb
16 Bolton St, Mayfair
London, W1J 8BQ
Großbritannien und Nordirland
auctions@dnw.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7016 1700
+44 (0)20 7016 1799
Beschreibung:

The important and excessively rare Second World War S.B.S. operations M.M. and Bar group of five awarded to Sergeant D. “Duggie” Pomford, South Lancashire Regiment: a pre-war champion amateur boxer - who later established and ran the famous Golden Gloves Club in Liverpool - he honed his fighting skills in No. 2 Special Service Brigade and No. 11 Commando under Keyes, V.C., prior to becoming a founder member of No. 1 Special Boat Section in 1941: he was subsequently twice decorated for his gallantry as a member ‘S’ Detachment, No. 1 Special Boat Squadron during hit and run raids on assorted islands of the Eastern Mediterranean in 1943-44 - fighting alongside a stunning cast of much decorated cut throats, among them Lassen, V.C. Military Medal, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar (3456406 Cpl. D. Pomford, S. Lan. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine or better (5) £40000-50000 Footnote ‘Pomford was popular and pleasant and, except when wearing (boxing) gloves, not normally violent but nobody tangled with him willingly - not even Busty Aubrey, who is regarded to this day as possibly the strongest man ever enlisted by the S.A.S.’ Anders Lassen, V.C., M.C. of the S.A.S., by Mike Langley, refers. Douglas “Duggie” Pomford, who was born in Liverpool in March 1920, traded his first tentative punches as a seven year old with the Dingle Club, the commencement of a highly successful career in amateur boxing in the period leading up to the outbreak of war, a career that witnessed him winning the Lancashire and Cheshire middleweight title and taking the champion Bruce Woodcock to the final round in the Northern Counties light heavyweight competition at Blackpool Tower - ‘I must have been giving away nine or 10 lbs. but lost only on a casting vote.’ Baptism of fire - Commando On enlisting in the South Lancashire Regiment in Preston in May 1940, he still got in plenty of boxing, winning Company, Regimental and Command competitions, fine work that also established him as a natural candidate for the Commandos - hence his appointment to No. 2 Special Service Brigade in December 1940, from whence he joined No. 11 Commando, bound for the Middle East as part of “Layforce”. Here, then, Pomford’s baptism of fire, for he participated in operations in Syria and elsewhere under Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, M.C. - shortly to win a posthumous V.C for his leadership of Operation “Flipper”, the attempt to capture Rommel at his H.Q. In fact it was as a result of the latter raid that the Commando was disbanded at the end of 1941 - a raid in which Pomford may well have been among the participants, albeit in the submarine Talisman, which had to withdraw owing to conditions off the coast. S.B.S. - founder member - M.M. Meanwhile, Major R. J. A. Courtney was recruiting likely candidates for a new clandestine force, and “Duggie” Pomford became a founding member of No. 1 Special Boat Section, Eastern Mediterranean Command. And, as might be expected of such a pugnacious character, quickly made his mark. A case in point being the following incident related by a fellow member of the S.B.S. in Mike Langley’s Anders Lassen, V.C., M.C. of the S.A.S.: ‘An R.A.F. Sergeant climbed aboard an S.A.S. lorry, wanting a lift without asking and obviously looking for trouble. He refused to leave and said so in a truculent manner. Pomford, only a Corporal, then stood up and said: “Sergeant, if you don’t leave, I’ll put you off.” The Sergeant sneered, “Who, you?” Pomford’s punch knocked him clean over the tailboard.’ Indeed frequent mention is made of Pomford in related reference works - not least the memoirs of his immediate C.O., Major David Sutherland - He Who Dares. So, too, in more recent publications, including Gavin Mortimer’s impressive illustrated history of The S.B.S. in World War II, in which appear photographs from the accompanying archive (see below). Of Pomford’s activities in 1942, little appears to be known, although in a newsp

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 1231
Auktion:
Datum:
25.06.2014 - 26.06.2014
Auktionshaus:
Dix Noonan Webb
16 Bolton St, Mayfair
London, W1J 8BQ
Großbritannien und Nordirland
auctions@dnw.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7016 1700
+44 (0)20 7016 1799
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