Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Able Seaman R. E. G. Lindsey, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (P/JX.159249 R. E. G. Lindsey AB. R.N.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, traces of verdigris to Stars, generally very fine (6) £200-240

Ronld Eric Guy Lindsey was born in Romsey, Hampshire, on 6 November 1922, and joined the Shaftesbury Homes Training Ship Arethusa on 30 June 1937. He enlisted as a Boy Seaman in the Royal Navy on 11 July 1938, and joined the Channel Guard Ship H.M.S. Revenge on 25 January 1940. He served in her during the Second World War, mainly on convoy escort duty: notable voyages included carrying Britain’s gold reserves from Greenock to Halifax, Nova Scotia; and conveying the exiled Polish General Sikorski to Canada.
Lindsey was promoted Able Seaman on 7 July 1941, and attended training in Pathfinder and Position Finding. His final important duty in Revenge was when she protected the huge convoy carrying the Australian Division home from Suez to Australia. On 6 January 1944 he transferred to H.M.S. Dryad, and then served in a number of other shore-based establishments. He transferred to H.M.S. Comus on 26 June 1951, and served in her during the Korean War, when the Comus was mainly involved in ensuring the various ports and islands surrounding the Korean peninsula remained in Allied hands. Returning home, he was shore pensioned on 19 September 1953, and died in Romsey, Hampshire, in March 1999.

Sold together with the recipient’s Parchment Certificate of Service in the Royal Navy; Gunnery History Sheet; Recommendations for Advancement and Conduct Record Sheet; various letters regarding his joining the Arethusa training ship; and nine original photographs.