Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Able Seaman A. G. Dearle, Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Reserve

British War and Victory Medals (J. 44652 A.B., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., coinage bust (J. 44652 (Po. B. 17494) A.B., R.F.R.), mounted as worn, the first two with contact marks and polished, good fine, the remainder good very fine (8) £80-100

Alfred George Dearle was born in Reading, Berkshire in March 1900 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in August 1915. Having attended the training ship Powerful, he served in the battleship H.M.S. Emperor of India from August 1916 until the end of the War, gaining advancement to Able Seaman in the same period. Little about his subsequent career is known, although he lost one Good Conduct Badge for being found guilty of deserting his post as Quarter Master of the Watch in the sloop Foxglove August 1924.