Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Ordinary Seaman J. E. W. Bullock, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Minesweeping 1945-51 (JX328942 J E W Bullock Sea RN) mounted as worn, together with Royal Naval Patrol Service Medal; Normandy Medal; National Service Medal; Overlord Medal, 55th Anniversary and Normandy Caen Memorial Medal, contact marks, nearly very fine (11) £140-180

Jonathan ‘Jack’ Ezra William Bullock was born in Saxthorpe, Norfolk, in April 1923. He joined the Royal Navy as Ordinary Seaman in April 1942 and ‘was a member of the Royal Naval Patrol Service, known as the Sparrows because their base was at Sparrows Nest in Lowestoft... Reliving his experiences... Mr Bullock said: “The whole job was frightening - but we did it because it was our job. The most frightening was when we were sweeping in the Indian Ocean and a destroyer told us to stop because we were right in the middle of a minefield.

We didn’t know what to do. We switched off the engine and were at the mercy of the wind and the waves. The thing that really saved us was that the the tide was on the make, so that it was lifting us up out of the water.” (copy of newspaper included in lot refers)

Bullock served in various ships, including: H.M.S. Lingay, HMS Bay, HMS Texada, and HMS Newcastle. He was discharged in September 1947, and returned to Norfolk where he was employed as a Gamekeeper. He died in Norwich, 18 March 2010.

Sold with the following related items: a number of original photographs and photographic images from the recipient’s service career and later life; Royal Naval Patrol Service Association 3rd Reunion card, and copies of newspaper cuttings mentioning recipient.