Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Stores Chief Petty Officer L. L. Payne, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; War Medal; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Yangtze 1949 (C.MX 51147 L. L. Payne. St. C.P.O. R.N.); Coronation 1953; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue (MX.51147 L. L. Payne. S.C.P.O. H.M.S. London); Netherlands, Gold Medal of Honour in the Order of Orange Nassau, with Swords, silver-gilt, mounted as worn, very fine (7) £1000-1200

Netherlands, Gold Medal of Honour with Swords London Gazette 12 July 1949: ‘For services rendered to the Royal Netherlands Navy during the War.’

Leslie Laurence Payne served as Stores Chief Petty Officer aboard H.M.S. London during the Yangtze incident.