Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Nine: Chief Petty Officer G. A. Rumsby, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (J.18730 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.18730 A.B., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. ‘Coinage head’ (J.18730 P.O., H.M.S. Vernon) first three worn, others very fine and better (9) £60-80

Chief Petty Officer George Amos Rumsby entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in 1912. Attaining the rank of Able Seaman in 1915, he served aboard the cruiser H.M.S. Blake from 1916 until the end of the war, attaining the rank of Petty Officer in 1921.

Sold with copied service details, original Trade Certificate as Rigger, 1936; Examination Results for the rating of ‘Rigger’ taken at Chatham Dockyard, 1936 and a number of other original documents