Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Nine: Stoker Petty Officer R. A. Parker, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (K.23396 Sto. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K.23396 Sto. 1, R.N.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (KX.91018, S.P.O., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (K.23396 L. Sto., H.M.S. Pembroke), mounted Court style for display, first three worn, last nearly very fine, others better (9) £160-200

Reginald Alexander Parker was born in 1896 at Ipswich, Suffolk. Having been employed in a potted meat factory he joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in November 1914. During 1915-18 he served aboard the destroyer leader H.M.S. Botha (ex-Chilean Almirante Williams) firstly at Scapa Flow and then at Dover. In the second half of 1918 he served aboard the sloop H.M.S. Amaryllis and the gunboat H.M.S. Ladybird in the Mediterranean. Parker was awarded his first Good Conduct Badge in 1917, only to have it deprived in 1922 and restored in 1923; the second was granted in 1925 and the third in 1927. Sold with copied service and research papers.