Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Junior Officer Walter Albert Johnson, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary

British War and Victory Medals (Jnr. Offr., M.F.A.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Walter A. Johnson) extremely fine (lot) £80-100

With Ordinary Apprentice’s Indenture, dated 18 November 1912 - this mutually cancelled on 17 July 1916; (damaged) card box of issue for British War and Victory Medals; Board of Trade forwarding slip for the Mercantile Marine Medal, dated 16 March 1926 and named to ‘Mr W. A. Johnson, Crofton Park, S.E.4’; authority to wear slip.

With papers re. Robert Ernest Johnson: a Royal Navy Certificate of Service, August 1946-August 1948.

With papers to Archibald M. J. Andrew: a Continuous Certificate of Discharge (2 booklets) covering the period, February 1904-December 1925 and February 1941-August 1946; ‘Hall Line’ letters of recommendation (4), 1938-39; Merchant Navy Reserve Pool Certificate of Discharge, 1946; National Registration Identity Card; Travel Identity Card bearing photograph;

With papers to John Archibald Andrew: including a Cammell Laird Indenture of Apprenticeship, 1932-37; Continuous Certificate of Discharge, covering the period, October 1937-December 1941; ‘Ellerman Assoc. Lines’ Certificate of Sea Service (2), 1941; a photograph of the recipient in uniform; copy of a job application letter outlining his previous employment; and sundry other cards and papers.