Full medal write up
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, CLASP NORTH AFRICA 1942-3; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45: NEW ZEALAND WAR SERVICE MEDAL; NEW ZEALAND OPERATIONAL SERVICE MEDAL; KOREA 1950-53, 2ND ISSUE ‘206965 CAPT A. E. POPE’; U.N. KOREA 1950-54‘206965 CAPT A. E. POPE’; NEW ZEALAND GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL 1992, CLASP KOREA 1954-57 ‘206965 CAPT A E POPE NZR’; REPUBLIC OF KOREA KOREAN WAR SERVICE MEDAL. Sterling Silver Naval Pilots Wings attached via its rear pin to WW2 Stars.
Ewart Alister Pope, aged 20, an Audit Clerk from Napier, was Commissioned Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A), New Zealand Naval Forces on 3 July 1940. He trained as a Torpedo Bomber Pilot and after training his service papers list him at Grebe between July and 22 October 1942, noting ‘for FFD in 775 Squadron as TBR Pilot’. Between 23 October 1942 and 4 March 1942, noted as ‘for FFD in *** Squadron’ and between 1 August 1943 and 12 March 1944 with Night Jar ‘for FFD in 735 Squadron’. Promoted Lieutenant in July 1944, he served with Ringtail and at Cook until the end of the war and was discharged in October 1945.
With the outbreak of the Korean Emergency, he was appointed Captain New Zealand Infantry Corps on 9 July 1952 (no 206965) and was promoted Acting Major in Korea on 1 June 1954, serving overseas, 9 August 1952 and in Korea between 10 October 1952 and 27 November 1954. It seems most of his time with HQ, B.C.F.K. NZ Regiment. He was posted to the Reserves on 12 March 1955.
Service record confirms WW2 and Korea Medals, noting 1484 total days in overseas service both Naval and Army.
Condition generally GVF or better. Sold with copy service papers for both navy and army.