Auction Catalogue

27 June 2002

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1605

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27 June 2002

Hammer Price:
£440

A Second World War B.E.M. group of nine awarded to Petty Officer A. W. Alderman, Royal Navy

British Empire Medal G.VI.R. (Military) 1st issue (P.O. Albert W. Alderman P/J.763); 1914-15 Star Trio (J.763 A.B. R.N.); Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (Smn. Rgr. H.M.Y. Victoria & Albert) mounted as worn, very fine (9) £180-220

B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1946.

Albert William Alderman was born at Winchester, Hampshire, on 7 May 1892, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 12 March 1908. He served throughout the Great War aboard H.M.S.
Agincourt, including Jutland, and joined the Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert in July 1919. He was still serving as a Seaman Rigger on the Royal Yacht at the time of the Coronation in 1937 and was awarded his B.E.M. as a Petty Officer at the Gunnery School H.M.S. Excellent.