Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Engine Room Artificer 1st Class W. E. Peach, B.E.M., Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (M.18510 W. E. Peach. E.R.A.4 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.18510 W. E. Peach. E.R.A.1, H.M.S. Harebell.) mounted as worn, very fine (3) £70-£90

B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1945.

William Edgar Peach was born in Weymouth, Dorset, on 19 September 1888 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class on 30 December 1915. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Topaze, and was advanced Engine Room Artificer 1st Class on 30 December 1927. He joined H.M.S. Harebell on 1 January 1930, in which ship he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 2 January 1931. He was shore pensioned on 29 December 1937, but was recalled to the Service on 31 July 1939, and served during the Second World War initially in H.M.S. Adventure, in which ship he was injured on 13 November 1939, receiving a Hurt Certificate the following month. He joined H.M.S. Ferret on 9 December 1940, and served in her for the rest of the War, and for his services during the Second World War he was awarded the British Empire Medal.

Sold with copied record of service, and a photograph of H.M.S. Harebell.