Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second World War B.E.M. awarded to Commissioned Sergeant-Major H. Devine, Royal Marines

British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (A./T./Q.M.S. Harry Devine, Ch. 24293 R.M.), nearly extremely fine
£300-350

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

Harry Devine, who was born in Middlesbrough in December 1906, enlisted in the Royal Marines in February 1924 and was posted to the Chatham Division. Advanced to Corporal in September 1934, after a spate of seagoing appointments, he was serving back at Chatham on the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939, but was quickly advanced to Sergeant and joined Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation No. 2 in early 1941. Meanwhile, in January 1940, he had been awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal. Devine was transferred to the R.M. Training Group in Devon in early 1943 and remained similarly employed until the War’s end, and was advanced to Commissioned Sergeant-Major in November 1945. He died in May 1971; sold with copied service records.