Orders, Decorations and Medals

A scarce medal to a Commanding Officer of one of H.M. Ships involved in the Suez Campaign of 1956

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (Lt. Cdr. P. G. S. Tostevin, R.N.) extremely fine £200-240

Peter George Samuel Tostevin was born in Havant in 1923. It is not known when he joined the Royal Navy but he was in the Seaman specialization branch and could have served for a number of years before being commissioned in 1945. He received his commission as Acting Sub-Lieutenant, with seniority of 1 January 1945 (London Gazette 22 February 1946) and was promoted to Lieutenant with seniority of 1 August 1945 (London Gazette 8 March 1946) and promoted to Lieutenant-Commander on 1 February 1954. He served aboard the sloop Enchantress, 1945; the Bombay depot ship, Redjacket, 1948; the frigate Loch Dunvegan, 1950; the aircraft carrier Triumph, 1952; the salvage vessel, Uplifter, 1953 and the Miner, 1955. On 15 June 1956 he was appointed to the command of the boom defence vessel Barnstone. The ship served in the 1956 Suez ‘Operation Musketeer’ and was actively employed in clearing sunken wrecks from the harbour. Lieutenant-Commander Tostevin retired on 9 July 1958 and died on 11 August 1977. Sold with some copied research and a British Armed Forces £1 note which was then current at the time of the Suez Campaign.