Six: Able Seaman N. Wiseman, Royal Navy, the recipient of an extremely rare Efficiency Medal

1939-45 Star; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (C/JX. 696128 A.B. N. Wiseman, Royal Navy); Police Long Service Medal, E.II.R. (Const.), mounted as worn, excepting the last in its card box of issue with typed label inscribed, ‘69. Lancashire. Const. Norman Wiseman’, good very fine (6) £350-400

E.M. London Gazette 23 February 1954.

One of very few awards to Naval personnel, Tamplin’s Efficiency Medal listing just 26 ratings (1949-84) and 11 officers (1949-57), the latter largely being R.N.V.R. or R.I.N.V.R recipients.