Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Chief Motor Mechanic H. A. Lawrence, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

1914-15 Star (M.B. 146 C.M.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (M.B. 146 C.M.M., R.N.V.R.), the ‘B.’ of ‘C.M.B.’ on the first double struck over a ‘C.’, good very fine and an early ‘M.B.’ number (3) £60-80

Henry Arthur Lawrence was an early entrant to the coastal forces scene, enlisting in September 1914. Posted soon afterwards to the depot ship Shearwater, he transferred, in October 1915, to the Auxiliary Patrol base Colleen at Kingstown, Ireland, and, in 1916, to similar employment on small craft operating out of the base Hermione. Lawrence’s final wartime posting was to the Wallington, the Auxiliary Patrol base at Immingham, where he served aboard M.L. 136 from August 1916 until April 1919.