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17 & 18 May 2016

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Lot

№ 489

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17 May 2016

Hammer Price:
£120

Six: Chief Petty Officer R. V. Willmott, Royal Navy

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939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf, these unnamed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (JX.127380 C.P.O., H.M.S. Pembroke) good very fine and better (10) £140-180

M.I.D. London Gazette 2 May 1944.

Ronald Victor Wilmott was born in Chatham on 5 April 1911 and died in Spilsby, Lincolnshire in 1977. M.I.D. earned as C.P.O. serving on the tank landing ship H.M.S.
LST 411 when she was mined on 31 December 1943. The vessel was mined and sunk off Bastia, Sardinia, Italy, on 26 January 1944.

With Arethusa Training Ship Medal, for 3 Years Service at Sea with a very Good Character, 39mm., silver, reverse named ‘R. V. Willmott’; H.M.S. Arethusa Prize Medal, 38mm., bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Winners 1927 15 Mess’; H.M.S. Kent Medal, 37mm., silvered bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘H.M.S. Kent1934 1st Cutter’; together with identity disk.

With damaged card forwarding box for the WW2 medals, addressed to ‘Mr R. V. Wilmott, 1 Beresford Crescent, Beresford Ave., Skegness, Lincs.’, with Admiralty slip; named card box of issue for the L.S. & G.C.