Auction Catalogue

16 April 2020

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 464

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16 April 2020

Hammer Price:
£130

Pair: W. S. Jones, Mercantile Marine
British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (William S. Jones), both in original Board of Trade paper envelopes in card boxes of issue, with ‘Authority to Wear’ certificate for the War Medal for the Mercantile Marine, named to ‘William Samuel Jones, Pilot’, nearly extremely fine

Four:
Acting Lieutenant E. H. Duce, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Edward H. Duce) very fine or better

British War Medal 1914-20 (J.51144 G. E. Maynard. A.B. R.N.) in named card box of issue, extremely fine (7) £70-£90

Edward Harold Duce was born in 1911 at Watford, Hertfordshire. A solicitor by profession, he served during the Second World War as a Temporary Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, stationed at H.M.S. Lanka, the Royal Navy’s on- shore establishment at Colombo, Ceylon. He remained in the Reserve until 1960 and died in 1994 in Berkshire.

Gilbert Ernest Maynard was born in 1896 in Tunbridge Wells and joined the Royal Navy on 4 March 1916. After serving two months as an Ordinary Seaman at Pembroke I he was posted to the depot ship H.M.S. Alecto on 9 May 1916 and he was promoted to Able Seaman on 20 December 1917. He remained in Alecto until the end of hostilities and was demobilised to shore on 22 August 1919. He died in 1981 in Surrey.

Sold together with two Battle of Jutland 1916 Memorial Medallions, by
Spink, London, one in white metal, the other in bronze.