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№ 193

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17 September 2020

Hammer Price:
£650

Eight: Paymaster Commander M. E. Goodfellow, Benbow Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was taken Prisoner of War at Antwerp

1914 Star, with later slide clasp (B.2/849. M. E. Goodfellow, P.O. R.N.V.R. Benbow Bttn. R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (B.2-849 M. E. Goodfellow. P.O. R.N.V.R.) both with officially re-impressed naming; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration, G.V.R.; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (2/849. M. E. Goodfellow. P.O. R.N.V.R. Bristol. Div.) the Great War awards polished, nearly very fine and better (8) £500-£700

Montague E. Goodfellow was born in 1892 and served in the Benbow Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Great War, being taken Prisoner of War at Antwerp in 1914. He was commissioned Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant, Bristol Division, R.N.V.R. on 13 September 1921, and was promoted Paymaster Lieutenant two years later, and Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander of the renamed Severn Division on 13 September 1931. He was advanced to his final rank of Paymaster Commander on 31 December 1935, and served during the Second World War as a member of the Advisory Committee. He is shown as having retired on the 1943 Navy List, and died in Clifton, Bristol, in 1964.

Sold with some research.