Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Stanley Bickerton, Merchant Navy and Goole Fire Brigade

British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Stanley Bickerton); Jubilee 1935, unnamed; National Fire Brigades Association L.S. Medal, 2 clasps Ten Years, Five Years (10517 Stanley Bickerton) reverse inscribed, ‘Goole Fire Brigade’, clasps connected by thread, good very fine (4) £70-90

Stanley Bickerton was born in Goole on 9 July 1895. During the Great War he served in the Merchant Navy and was rated as a 3rd Class Engineer. In 1922 Bickerton joined the Goole Fire Brigade and was awarded the National Fire Brigades Association L.S. Medal for 10 years service on 17 January 1933. He was awarded the ‘5 Years’ clasp on 8 June 1937.

With original ‘Authority to Wear’ and forwarding slips for the British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals; riband bar and copied m.i.c. with photograph and roll extract.