Orders, Decorations and Medals

A military B.E.M. group of eight awarded to Petty Officer S. D. Kirby, Royal Navy

British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (P.O. Stanley D. Kirby, C/SSX.21819) official correction to name; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (SSX.21819, O. Smn., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (SSX21819 B.E.M., Ch.B.26129 P.O. R.F.R.) contact marks, nearly very fine and better (8) £400-500

B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1946.

A New Years Honours award, the recipient serving as a Petty Officer aboard the destroyer H.M.S. Zest. Commanded by Lieutenant-Commander R. B. N. Hicks, D.S.O., R.N., from June 1944 until the end of hostilities, Zest won Battle Honours for “Arctic 1945” and “Norway 1945”, the latter operations including the evacuation of Norwegians from Soroy, for which Hicks was awarded the Order of St. Olav.