A Fine American Dsm Grouping To Colonel William Randolph Winslow Auction The first batch of fifty

The first batch of fifty F-S Fighting Knives were produced in January 1941 by Wilkinson Sword Ltd after Fairbairnand Sykes had travelled down to their factory from the Special Training Centre at Lochailort

Knie was initially dispatched to Italy for a few months where he had no enemy contact

dated "1940" and size stamped "56" on the underside on the right

angled pinback)

Now in the rank of Major

A Fine American Dsm Grouping To Colonel William Randolph Winslow Auction The first batch of fiftyDistinguished Service Medal (bronze gilt, engraved "WILLIAM R. WINSLOW" on the reverse, numbered 8628, 32 mm, original ribbon with brooch pinback, accompanied by its 10. 5 mm x 36. 5 mm Ribbon Bar and its 3. 8 mm x 17. 2 mm Enamelled Ribbon Bar, along with an award card from Brigadier General Roland Walsh, Army Service Forces in Philadelphia, in its hardshelled case of issue, marked "DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL" on the lid); Bronze Star Medal (bronze,