Pair: Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander A. D. Ritchie, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (Surg. Lt. (D). A. D. Ritchie. R.N.); Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, E.II.R., reverse officially dated 1976, mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £300-£400

A. D. Ritchie had a seniority of 4 August 1956. He was appointed to Ceres in 1956, to Newcastle and Tyne in 1957, earning his N.G.S. in the latter ship, and to Collingwood in 1959. He is no longer shown in the Navy List from 1962 but reappears in 1967 as Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander (D) and with ‘RD’ recorded from 1979 until 1982 after which he is no longer listed.