Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Master A. Gladney, Mercantile Marine
British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Arthur Gladney) very fine

Five: attributed to Midshipman M. Younger, Royal Naval Reserve
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-3; Burma Star, 1 clasp, Pacific; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine

Four: Able Seaman J. R. Silcock, Royal Navy
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (John Richie Silcock) good very fine

Three: attributed to Stewardess M. Bolton, Merchant Navy
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine

Three: Lieutenant L. F. Smith, Cape Town Highlanders
Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially named ‘19436 L. F. Smith’, mounted as worn, contact wear, generally very fine (17) £140-£180

Arthur Gladney was born in Scarborough in 1865. His Medal card notes he was a Master in the Mercantile Marine.

Michael Younger served as a Midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve during the Second War. Sold with original Admiralty Casualty Card, and some documentation relating to his brother, Robert Peter Younger, who served as a Merchant Navy Cadet during the Second War, and was killed in action when his ship, the S.S. Designer was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-98 off the Portuguese coast on 9 July 1941.

John Richie Silcock was born in Prestwick, Scotland on 3 March 1926. He joined the Royal Navy on 18 February 1944, and served as an Able Seaman in the escort carrier H.M.S. Activity between 21 December 1944 and 25 September 1945. In civilian life he was a postman in Glasgow, and was awarded his Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement in 1986 (London Gazette 18 April 1986).
Sold with original Certificate of Service, a photograph of H.M.S. Activity’s Ship’s company, and other research

Maud Bolton was born in Manchester on 3 June 1883. Joining the Merchant Navy, she is noted as serving as a Stewardess aboard S.S. Duchess of Bedford from 31 March 1939 until May 1940, making many voyages between Liverpool and Montreal and Saint John. Joining S.S. Duchess of Atholl in June 1940, she made a further three trips to and from the same port, her last on 16 August 1940. She had service until a single sailing in May 1945, followed by four more in 1946; all between Manchester and Canada. She was discharged from the Merchant Navy in 1947.
Sold with original Board of Trade Continuous Service Certificate of Discharge

Leslie Frederick Smith, from Mouille Point, Cape Town, attested for full time service on 1 July 1940, having served as a Volunteer in with Cape Town Highlanders from 1934. Serving with this unit in Africa in 1941, he transferred to the Kimberley Regiment in 1942, serving the rest of the War in the Union.
Sold with service papers which confirm this was Smith’s full entitlement.