Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second World War B.E.M. awarded to Quarter Master J. Hanmore, Merchant Navy

British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (James Hanmore), good very fine £120-150

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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B.E.M. London Gazette 11 June 1942.

James Hanmore, who was born in Brighton in January 1889, served in the Mercantile Marine in the Great War, and was sent his British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals in January 1923.

A Quarter Master by the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939, he was awarded his B.E.M. in respect of his services in the S.S. Empire Trust, following which he served in the Macharda in March-June 1942, and in the Mathar from July 1942 until the War’s end. Hanmore finally came ashore in March 1950; sold with further details.