Auction Catalogue

2 April 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1128

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2 April 2004

Hammer Price:
£190

Three: Air Mechanic I J. H. Hamer, Royal Naval Air Service

1914-15 Star
(F. 714 P.O.M., R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (F. 714 A.M. 1, R.N.A.S.), the last two officially re-impressed, good very fine (3) £20-30

Joseph Henry Hamer, who was born at Liverpool in December 1890 and by profession a ‘motor driver’, entered the Royal Navy in October 1914. Originally rated as a Petty Officer Mechanic, he was re-appointed an A.M. 1 in the course of 1916, and among his more unusual wartime appointments were postings to Wormwood Scrubs and the Ministry of Munitions, not to mention the better part of 1918 at President V, a multi-disciplined establishment that included ‘Anti-aircraft duties, also R.N.R. ratings at Admiralty & R.N.V.R. and some Prisoners of War, Armoured Car Sqn. 20, Stratford Experimental Sta., Officers and men lent to AF’ (Warlow’s Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy refers). Hamer was discharged in February 1919.