Family Group:

Three: Petty Officer I. Bunt, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (225748, I Bunt. L.S., R.N.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (225748 I. Bunt. P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (225748. Inkerman Bunt. P.O. H.M.S. Hood) very fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (William J. Bunt) very fine (4) £80-£120

Inkerman Bunt was born on 5 November 1887, at Fowey, Cornwall, and commenced naval service on 17 April 1903, as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Impregnable. He was advanced to Able Seaman, H.M.S. Cambrian on 10 October 1905, Leading Seaman, H.M.S. Vivid I, on 1 October 1915, and Petty Officer, H.M.S. Blenheim, on 1 September 1918. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal in November 1920. He was posted to H.M.S. Dolphin on 26 January 1925, and to H.M.S. Eagle, for service in the Fleet Air Arm on 1 July 1925. He was shore pensioned on 4 November 1927 and died in 1956 at Redruth, Cornwall.

William James Bunt, the father of the above, was born in 1856, at Highway, Redruth, Cornwall. He served in the Mercantile Marine during the Great War and received the British War Medal and Mercantile Marine Medal, which were issued on the 23 April 1924, and sent to ‘Belleville’, Polruan, Fowey, Cornwall.