Auction Catalogue

16 & 17 September 2010

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1208

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17 September 2010

Hammer Price:
£160

Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue, with Second Award Bar (1717V W. G. Norris, Sto. R.N.R.) good very fine £70-90

William George Norris was born on 13 May 1895 in Buenos Aires, the son of William and Harriet Norris. He enrolled into the Royal Naval Reserve on 9 October 1914. During the Great War he served on the armoured cruiser Duke of Edinburgh, October 1914-October 1915 and the corvette Primrose, November 1915-December 1916. From May 1917 until 31 December 1917, when she was sunk by the U-110 in the British Channel, he served in the ‘Q-Ship’ Penshurst and was mentioned in despatches ‘for services in action with enemy submarines (London Gazette 22 February 1918). After this he served in the cruiser Newcastle, June-December 1918. He was demobilised in September 1919 but continued to serve in the R.N.R. and on 2 December 1929 at Swansea he was awarded the R.N.R. Long Service Medal. In 1943 he was awarded the Bar to the Medal, which was presented to him at the Royal Naval Air Station at Machrihanish (H.M.S. Landrail). As a member of the R.N.R. at the time, he would have been mobilised for service during the Second World War. With copied service papers and other research.