Orders, Decorations and Medals

A U.S.A group of four awarded to Lieutenant Carter Carnall Mathies, United States Navy

U.S.A., China Service Medal 1937-57, Navy issue; National Defense Medal; U.S. Navy Expert Pistol Shot Medal; Brazil, Naval Distinguished Service Medal, silver cross, all unnamed; with a mounted set of four miniature dress medals; together with an identity disk, ‘Mathies, C. C., 545067 USN “O” Protestant’, extremely fine (9) £120-160

Carter Carnall Mathies was born in Wister, Oklahoma, on 5 December 1933. He graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of New Mexico in 1954, and was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. Assigned to the destroyer U.S.S. Kidd in the Pacific Fleet. Awarded the China Service Medal for service on the Kidd off Formosa during the Amoy-Matsu Crisis in 1956. In 1958 he was assigned as an aide to the U.S. Naval Attache to Brazil. Awarded the Brazil Navy Distinguished Service Medal in 1960. Was later posted to the U.S.S. Perkins as Operations Officer; he was discharged in 1962.
After his military service he entered the Investment Banking field and was a Senior Vice President with a major international securities firm until his death in 2006.

With award document for the Brazil Navy Distinguished Service Medal, named to ‘Capitao Tenete Carter Carnall Mathies’ and dated 21 December 1960; case of issue for the Brazilian medal, with riband bar, case with paper label, ‘Lt. Carter Carnall Mathies, USN 545067 Navy Distinguished Service Medal by Brazil’; with copied commission document appointing Mathies ‘Lieutenant (Junior Grade)’, 3 December 1956, and copied service record; papers in a ‘Department of the Navy’ plastic folder.