Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Leading Steward C. R. Scoins, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, copy clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, copy clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Cecil R. Scoins) mounted as worn; U.S.S.R. Medal for the 40th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War 1985, combatant’s issue, mounted Russian style, very fine (7) £70-90

Scoins: M.I.D. London Gazette 23 September 1941. ‘For courage, skill and enterprise in successful submarine patrols’ ‘Leading Steward Cecil Robert Scoins, P/LX.21752, H.M.S. Tigris’. Awarded for patrols in June and July 1941 - during which time the Tigris torpedoed and sank the Italian submarine Michele Bianchi in the Bay of Biscay, 5 July 1941.