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

Five: Master-at-Arms A. V. Baker, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (J.274418 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.27418 A.B., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.37985 R.P.O., H.M.S. Vulcan); Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, fine and better (5) £60-80

Sold with riband bar and original Certificate of Service with envelope.

Albert Victor Barker was born in 1897 in Ipswich, Suffolk. He enlisted into the Royal Navy in 1913 as a Boy 2nd Class. Promoted Boy 1st Class in 1914, Ordinary Seaman in 1915 and Able Seaman in 1916, he served abaord the cruiser H.M.S. Bonaventure from June 1915 - October 1916. Promoted Petty Officer in 1923, he attained the rank of Master-of-Arms in 1936. He was pensioned in 1938 but rejoined the Service the following year and served throughout the Second World War as Master-at-Arms.