Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Senior Radio Officer J. M. Sutton, Merchant Navy

Korea 1950-53 (J. M. Sutton); U.N. Korea 1950-54; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (J. M. Sutton); General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Borneo (Sen. Radio Off. J. M. Sutton), the third with officially re-impressed naming and the last with official correction to rank, good very fine (4) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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John Mark Sutton was born in Beckenham, South London, in February 1925 and first went to sea in the British Integrity in April 1945, but was not entitled to any campaign awards. Of his subsequent career as a Radio Officer, he served off Korea in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Maine, in the Near East in the R.F.A. Tidereach and off Borneo in the R.F.A. Fort Duquesne. He came ashore at the end of 1972; sold with copied service record.