Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Engineer Lieutenant R. A. Steen, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (Eng. S. Lt., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Eng. Lt., R.N.); Portugal, Republic, Military Order of Aviz, Knight’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, slip bar on ribbon, good very fine (4) £220-260

Order of Aviz London Gazette 15 February 1919.

Richard Albert Steen, appointed an Engineer Sub-Lieutenant in the R.N.R., 11 June 1915. Promoted to Engineer Lieutenant in the R.N., August 1917 and Acting Engineer Lieutenant Commander in August 1918. Served on the seaplane carrier Vindex, June 1915; the R.F.A. oiler Gypol, December 1916 and the armed boarding steamer Duke of Cornwall, March 1917.

With original (damaged and repaired) Admiralty communication informing Steen of the award of the Portuguese Military Order of Aviz. Also with copied service notes.