Lot Archive

Lot

№ 718

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5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£50

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (JX. 125868 S. R. Gardiner, A.P.O., H.M.S. Tyrian) extremely fine £60-80

Stanley Roy Gardiner was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in January/February 1944, while serving aboard the destroyer H.M.S. Tyrian. She won seven Battle Honours in the 1939-45 War, the whole for the period 1943-44, and including those for the Allied landings in Sicily, Salerno and the South of France.