Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Commander F. C. L. Halliday, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (Mid., R.N.) this pair mounted as worn; Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Greece, Victory Medal 1918, official type; Medal of Military Merit, 3rd Class, bronze wreath on ribbon, unnamed, this pair mounted as worn; together with a mounted group of three miniature dress medals: British War and Victory Medals; Greece, Medal of Military Merit, this last with no ribbon emblem, good very fine and better (9) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of British Groups with Foreign Awards.

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Frederick Clive Loch Halliday was born on 5 May 1900. He entered a Royal Naval Training establishment on 15 January 1914. On 1 May 1917 he was appointed a Midshipman in the Royal Navy. During the latter part of the Great War he served on the battleships Dominion, Hibernia and Ramillies. He was promoted Acting Sub-Lieutenant in January 1919, was confirmed in that rank in September 1919, and having been transferred to the Emergency List in January 1921 was promoted to Lieutenant in September 1922. His papers in 1919 show him as being ‘desirous of taking up secret service work’ and in 1920 he qualified as a pilot and as an observer in kite balloons. In 1926 he was granted permission to accept the position of Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Jamaica. Promoted to Lieutenant-Commander (Engineering) in October 1940 and Commander (Engineering) in March 1946. Commander Halliday was released from active service in January 1946, reverting to the Emergency List.

With copied service papers and gazette extracts. Greek medals not confirmed.