Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Able Seaman J. W. Turner, Royal Navy

British War Medal 1914-20 (J.89336 J. W. Turner. Boy 1, R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J.89336 J. W. Turner. A.B. H.M.S. Danae); together with an Arethusa & Chichester Training Ship medal, silver, the reverse engraved ‘J. W. Turner’, very fine and better (9) £140-£180

John Walter Turner was born in Bardford, Yorkshire on 3 June 1902. Enlisting for Boy service 19 April 1918, his service at the end of the Great War was in H.M.S. Ganges. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 28 June 1935.

Sold with an original portrait postcard, the reverse of which states that Turner was wounded during the course of an Arctic convoy in the Second World War. His service record notes that he was invalided from the service 21 March 1945.