British War Medal 1914-20 (14171 J. S. Martin, Tlr., R.N.) good very fine £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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John Smart Martin was born at Devonport in September 1865 and entered the Royal Navy as a Tailor in August 1887. Awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in August 1902, he was pensioned ashore in August 1911. Stirred, however, by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he returned to the fray with needle and thread at the training establishment Impregnable, thereby qualifying for a single British War Medal 1914-20 before being demobilised in December 1919, aged 54 years.