Six rare World War Two medals awarded to a Lancaster Bomber pilot have sold for £24,000 at auction. Flight Lieutenant Edward Sydney Ellis, born in Luton in 1914 and employed by Vauxhall Motors ...

Merton’s professionally mounted medals in the auction are the British War and Victory ... France in 1939 at the start of World War II. He stayed in the Army after being freed as a prisoner ...

World War I and World War II. (Wikimedia Commons) The British wisely fancied him. During four decades of service that saw him receive more than 30 military medals, Carton de Wiart transformed ...