Orders, Decorations and Medals

Ten: Captain W. A. Whitaker, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (237637 Ldg. Sean., H.M.S. Pelorus); 1914-15 Star (Mate, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1937; Norway, King Haakon VII Freedom Medal, bronze, these all unnamed, mounted as worn; Belgium, Order of the Crown, Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, no ribbon, note: surname spelt ‘Whittaker’ on first medal, good very fine (10) £450-550

Norway King Haakon VII Freedom Medal London Gazette 26 August 1947. ‘Captain Wildred Alfred Whitaker, Royal Navy (Retired)’

Belgium Order of the Crown, Cmdr. London Gazette 1 February 1949. ‘Captain Wildred Alfred Whitaker, Royal Navy (Retired)’

Wilfred Alfred Whitaker was commissioned from the ranks as Mate in 1915. Promoted to Lieutenant in 1918, Lieutenant-Commander in 1926 and Commander in 1932; he retired in 1940. Served on Chatham and Courageous during 1915-18. Returning to the service for the Second World War he was promoted Captain and was engaged in training duties. In 1945 he commanded H.M.S. Squid - the Tank Landing Craft repair base at Southampton. For his wartime services he received awards from Belgium and Norway.

With the original bestowal document for the Norwegian medal and copied gazette extracts and notes.