Orders, Decorations and Medals

Nine: Captain S. V. Jephson, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence & War Medals; Coronation 1937, these seven mounted as worn; Poland, Order of Polonia Restituta, 3rd class neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, with neck cravat in its Spink & Son case of issue; France, Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, in case of issue; together with companion set of nine miniatures, various ribbon bars, and a silver cigarette case, hallmarked 1913, inscribed ‘S.V.J. from W.V.J. May 24. 1918’, and ‘R.N.C. Osborne, R.N.C. Dartmouth, H.M.S. Lion, H.M.S. Ursula, H.M.S. Woolfhound’, the Legion of Honour with some enamel chips, otherwise extremely fine (19) £300-350

Polonia Restituta London Gazette 22 December 1942: Captain (D) Greenock. For services to the Polish Navy.

Legion of Honour, date of London Gazette not found but confirmed in Seedies Roll ‘for services to FNFL Battle of the Atlantic.’