Auction Catalogue

27 June 2007

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 756

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27 June 2007

Hammer Price:
£130

Four: Ordinary Seaman W. S. Crighton, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (JX.142938 O. Smn., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, these extremely fine (lot) £90-110

Sold with W.W.2 medals’ card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mr W. S. Crighton, Home Cottage, Kenmore St., Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland’; riband bar; Petty Officer cloth and bullion badges (3) - dress cap badge, rank badge and gun layer proficiency badge; together with two shooting medals- Portsmouth United Service Rifle Meeting, 38mm., silverd metal, inscribed, ‘Portsmouth Times 1939’, with ribbon and brooch bar, and Portsmouth Port Rifle & Revolver Meeting, 32mm., bronze, 2 clasps, inscribed, ‘Generals Cup’ and ‘Ryder Cup’. Also with a booklet, Coxswain’s Guide, inscribed in pencil, ‘W. S. Crighton’ and two postcards.

For his father’s medals, see lot 659.