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

Six: Gunner E. N. A. Sayers, Royal Indian Marine, one of a small handful of Naval recipients of the Army G.S.M. for transport duties in the South Persia operations

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (Gunr., R.I.M.S. Minto); 1914-15 Star (Gunner, R.I.M.); British War and Victory Medals (Gnr., R.I.M.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (Gnr., R.I.M.); Jubilee 1935 initials given as ‘E.W.’ on the first, one or two edge bruises and slight contact wear, generally good very fine (6) £600-800

Edward Nelson Alleyn Sayers was born in Eastbourne, Sussex in September 1886 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in the course of 1903. Transferring to the Royal Indian Marine as a Gunner in late 1910, he served aboard the R.I.M.S. Minto in the Persian Gulf operations until October of the following year. Sayers next joined the Hardinge and remained with her for most of the Great War, seeing action against the Turks in 1915, when the latter attempted to block the Suez Canal. But it was while detached on transport duties to Bandar Abbas between late 1918 and the summer of 1919 that he qualified for his extremely rare G.S.M. Sayers finally retired in October 1937.