Five: Corporal Oliver Goodliffe Harlow, East Africa Protectorate Telegraphic Section, late Leading Signalman Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (236232 Sig., H.M.S. Proserpine); 1914-15 Star (9 Cpl., E.A.P. Tel. S.); British War and Victory Medals (9 Cpl., E.A.P. Tel. S.); Defence Medal, unnamed, very fine and better, scarce unit (5)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Bruce C Cazel Collection of British Campaign Awards.

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Oliver Goodliffe Harlow was born in Bedford on 16 July 1890. An Errand Boy by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 23 April 1906 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in November the same year. He served on the battleship Dreadnought, April 1907-January 1909, being promoted to Ordinary Signalman in July 1908 and Signalman in December 1908. He attained the rank of Leading Signalman in September 1911 when serving on the armoured cruiser Blenheim. He was ‘passed’ for petty officer in 1911 but his naval career was cut short and he was discharged invalided in March 1912. Despite this, he entered the Great War, serving in East Africa from 30 November 1915, as a Corporal in the East Africa Protectorate Telegraphic Section. During the Second World War he was awarded the Defence Medal.

Defence Medal in card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mr Oliver G. Harlow, 67, Coventry Road, Bedford’. Sold with copied service paper and m.i.c.