Five: J. E. Lee, Royal Engineers and Merchant Navy

1914-15 Star (122309 Spr. J. E. Lee, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (122309 Spr. J. E. Lee, R.E.); British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (James E. Lee) good very fine (5) £140-180

Provenance: Donald G. Mellen Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2015.

James Edward Lee was born in Liverpool on 9 August 1890. A Seaman by occupation, he attested for the Royal Engineers Inland Water Division at Liverpool on 30 November 1915, aged 25 years. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of War on 11 November 1915, and later served as a Cook in the Merchant Navy.

Sold with copied Medal Index Card and army and navy papers - his copied Merchant Navy record card bears a photograph of him in his R.E. uniform.