Ten: Leading Signalman R. E. W. Browning, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (J.88748 R. E. W. Browning Sig. Boy. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J.88748 R. E. W. Browning. Sig. H.M.S. Victory.) the Great War awards worn, these fair, the rest good very fine (10) £140-180

Robert Edward William Browning was born in Brighton on 7 September 1902 and joined the Royal Navy on 16 April 1918, serving in the last few months of the Great War as a Boy Signalman. Advanced Signalman, he passed examinations in Gunnery, Seamanship, Anti-gas, and Pistol, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 20 March 1936. He continued to serve during the Second World War, and was injured in H.M.S. Camito on 8 January 1941 when he fell from a Jacob’s ladder 20 feet causing injury to his elbow and severe contusion on his right thigh; his injury was sufficient to cause his removal from Camito, and thus he avoided being in her when she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-97 whilst on escort duty in the Atlantic Ocean on 6 May 1941. Promoted Leading Signalman on 28 July 1943, whilst serving in H.M.S. Warspite, he was shore pensioned on 11 October 1945.

Sold with the recipient’s original Parchment Certificate of Service; Parchment Certificate for Wounds and Hurts, together with an authorised Copy Certificate; the recipient’s Signal History Sheet; and a letter to the recipient on his release from Service.