Auction Catalogue

27 & 28 September 2016

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 1273

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28 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£130

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C. (2), G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J.104561 A. W. Nash. P.O. H.M.S. Neptune.); another, G.VI.R., 1st issue (J,101698 A. W. Healey. A.B., H.M.S. Leith.) very fine (2) £70-90

Albert William Nash was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, on 21 January 1904. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 1st Class on 7 October 1921, and was advanced Ordinary Seaman on 21 January 1922. served in the Royal Navy in H.M.S. Neptune, a cruiser launched in 1933 and sunk by a mine off Tripoli on 19 December 1941, and retired as a Senior Commissioned Bosun in 1952.