Eight: Sergeant G. V. Fletcher, Royal Marines

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 copy clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, 2 clasps, S.E. Asia 1945-46, Near East unofficial retaining rod between clasps (Po./X. 3349 G. V. Fletcher. Mne. R.M.) minor official correction to prefix to number; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (Po/X. 3349 G. V. Fletcher. Sgt. R.M.) mounted as worn, good very fine and better (8) £260-£300

George Vernon Fletcher was born in Sunderland on 17 January 1921, and enlisted in the Royal Marines at Derby on 8 August 1938. He served during the Second World War with the Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation 2 (M.N.B.D.O. 2), and was promoted Corporal on 19 September 1947, and Sergeant on 29 January 1949. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 20 February 1954, and was pensioned on 16 January 1961.

Sold with the recipient’s Certificate of Service; Certificate of Discharge; Royal Marines Third Class Certificate of Education; and various group and individual photographs, including one of the recipient being inspected by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh at Lympstone in 1954, all of the above apart from the Certificate of Service laminated.