Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Musician N. Mead, Royal Marine Band

1914-15 Star (R.M.B. 214 Mus.); British War and Victory Medals (R.M.B. 214 Mus.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (R.M.B.214 Musn., H.M.S. Impregnable) trio and L.S. & G.C. with contact marks, worn through polishing; others good very fine (6) £50-70

Norman Meda was born in West Hatch, Taunton, Somerset on 14 May 1889. Employed as a Corn Miller’s Boy, he enlisted into the Royal Marines in Exeter as a Band Boy on 23 November 1903 and was rated as a Musician in May 1906. Much of his service was at the Royal Marines School of Music at Deal in Kent. He served on the battleship H.M.S. Hercules, September 1913- January 1919 and as such saw action at the battle of Jutland. Mead was awarded the L.S. & G.C. in 1926 when on the training ship H.M.S. Impregnable.

He was discharged in 1932 but was mobilised in September 1939, serving as a Musician until May 1943 when he was discharged as ‘physically unfit’, aged 54 years. He died in Portsmouth in 1953.

With copied service paper.