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4 & 5 March 2020

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№ 1159

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5 March 2020

Hammer Price:
£280

Gulf 1990-91, 1 clasp, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991 (MEM (M) 1 E G A Ayers D182645D RN) officially re-impressed naming; together with the recipient’s two identity tags, good very fine £240-£280

Edward George Albert Ayres was born in Gravesend, Kent, on 2 April 1959, and joined the Royal Navy on 5 February 1980. After initial training he joined the Submarine Service at H.M.S. Dolphin on 18 August 1980, and served for the next decade in the Oberon-class Submarine H.M.S. Otus, including active service during the first Gulf War, where H.M.S. Otus was involved in deploying and recovering Special Forces personnel. Ayres’ final sea-going posting was in the Trafalgar-class Submarine H.M.S. Tireless, from 9 February 1993 to 26 April 1994, before he was discharged on 30 May 1994.

Sold with copied record of service; various photographs of H.M.S.
Otus (including one of the ship’s crew); and a VHS cassette tape of H.M.S. Otus returning from the Gulf War.