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17 & 18 May 2016

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Lot

№ 162

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17 May 2016

Estimate: £300–£360

A Second World War B.E.M. group of nine awarded to Carpenter J. C. Wilson, Merchant Navy

British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (James Carlew Wilson) in Royal Mint case of issue; British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (James C. Wilson); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed, good very fine (9) £300-360

B.E.M. London Gazette 4 January 1943. ‘James Carlew Wilson, Carpenter, Merchant Navy.’

Awarded for service aboard S.S.
Benrinnes, a cargo liner of the Ben Line, 5,414 tons, built in 1921 and survived the war.

With original authority to wear the British War and Mercantile Marine Medals; registered envelope and a postcard photograph of S.S.
Benrinnes. With copied gazette extract.