Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Able Seaman H. Orman, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (J.78480 H. Orman. Ord. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J.78480 H. Orman, A.B., H.M.S. Basilisk.) contact marks to the pre-Second War awards, these good fine, the Second War awards nearly extremely fine (6) £70-£90

Harold Orman was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, on 8 November 1899, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class, serving in H.M.S. Powerful, on 13 September 1917. He joined the battleship H.M.S. Resolution on 24 December 1917, in which ship he qualified for his Great War medals, and was advanced Able Seaman on 3 December 1920. He transferred to H.M.S. Basilisk on 20 October 1931, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 23 November 1932. He served throughout the Second World War in the destroyer H.M.S. Mackay, and was discharged at the end of the War in August 1945.

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