Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Able Seaman J. E. Brunyce, Royal Navy

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (J.633 J. E. Brunyce, Boy. 1Cl., H.M.S. Hyacinth.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (J.633. J. E. Brunyce. Ord. Sean. H.M.S. Hyacinth.) edge bruise to latter, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £240-£280

James Edward Brunyce was born in London on 24 December 1891 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 11 February 1908. Posted to H.M.S. Hyacinth on 27 March 1909, he served in her during the operations in Somaliland, and in the Persian Gulf, and was advanced Ordinary Seaman on 24 December 1909, and Able Seaman on 8 March 1911. He served during the Great War, first in H.M.S. Dominion, and then, from 14 October 1915, was mainly born on the books of H.M.S. Pembroke. He served on destroyer H.M.S. Termagant from March 1916 to November 1917, and was present at the Battle of Jutland. Later he served with another destroyer H.M.S. Versatile in February 1918, which later in 1919 took part in the campaign against Bolshevik forces in the Baltic Sea during the Russian Civil War. Sailors of this ship took part in the Royal Navy mutiny of 1919. He left the ship in 1920, later served in H.M.S. Royal Oak before being shore demobilised on 31 December 1921. In 1939 he was a mail porter, living in Islington, and died there in 1953.