Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Able Seaman N. Wiseman, Royal Navy, the recipient of an extremely rare Efficiency Medal and later a Police Constable in Lancashire

1939-45 Star; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; Defence and War Medals; Police Long Service Medal, E.II.R. (Const. Norman Wiseman) with its card box of issue with typed label inscribed, ‘69. Lancashire. Const. Norman Wiseman’; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (C/JX. 696128 A.B. N. Wiseman, Royal Navy) good very fine (6) £500-£700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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E.M. London Gazette 23 February 1954.

One of very few awards to Naval personnel, Tamplin’s Efficiency Medal listing just 26 ratings (1949-84) and 11 officers (1949-57), the latter largely being R.N.V.R. or R.I.N.V.R recipients.