Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

Four: Captain G. E. A. Tinnock, Merchant Navy, and Sierra Leone Naval Volunteer Force

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals; together with an attractive masonic medal, in silver-gilt and enamels, for the Sierra Leone Lodge, reverse inscribed ‘Presented to Wor. Bro. G. E. A. Tinnock in appreciation of his services as W.M. for the year 1955-56’; and a large quantity of original documentation, including Crtificate Of Competency as Master of a Steamship; Continuous Certificate of Discharge; British Passport for Sierra Leone, West Africa; numerous letters of recommendation and a number of photographs, generally good very fine or better (5) £50-60

Gordon Eustace Alexander Tinnock served with the Merchant Navy from 1923-41; Assistant Harbour Master Sierra Leone, 1 February 1942; Sierra Leone Naval Volunteer Force, 14 September 1942; Harbour Master Sierra Leone, 27 December 1951 (Captain).