Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-war civil B.E.M. group of eight awarded to L. V. Williams, late Bombardier, 5th Maritime Regiment, R.A.

British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R. (Leslie Victor Williams); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Pacific Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medal 1939-45; Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R. (Leslie Victor Williams), together with veteran’s Dunkerque Medal 1940, the I.S.M. officially re-impressed, very fine and better (9) £140-180

B.E.M. London Gazette 30 November 1971.

Leslie Victor Williams was born in Birmingham in September 1911 and enlisted in the Royal Artillery in May 1931, when he was posted to 3rd Medium Battery, R.A. A Lance-Bombardier by the outbreak of hostilities, he served with the B.E.F. from September 1939 until June 1940, and was advanced to Sergeant in December of the same year, while attached to the Hampshire Regiment. Having then attended relevant gunnery courses, he was posted to 5th Maritime Regiment, R.A., in late 1943, in which capacity he served on the Atlantic run and in the Mediterranean in the M.V. Empire Saturn, and out in the Middle and Far East in the M.V. Thurland Castle. His final wartime appointment appears to have been in the M.V. Empire Sincerity, back on the Atlantic run. Post-war, Williams became a postman in Birmingham, in which capacity he was awarded his B.E.M. in 1971.

Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, application form for his campaign medals, Dunkerque Medal certificate (No. 3601), and Central Chancery forwarding letter for his I.S.M., together with one or two photographs, including B.E.M. investiture.