Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Acting Stoker Petty Officer P. Marshall, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (S.S. 119454 P. Marshall. Sto. 1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (K. 65985 P. Marshall. A/S.P.O. H.M.S. Dunedin.) contact marks, nearly very fine or better (3) £70-£90

Percy Marshall was born at Hull, Yorkshire in September 1899 and enlisted into the Royal Navy in December 1918 as a Stoker Second Class. He was awarded his Great War campaign medals for his service in the Black Sea aboard the dreadnought battleship H.M.S. Iron Duke, during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. He was demobilised in March 1922, but re-enlisted in May 1925 with a new service number and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in February 1938 while on the crew of the light cruiser H.M.S. Dunedin. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was serving aboard the minesweeper H.M.S. Hebe and was part of her crew during her involvement in evacuation of Dunkirk, where she rescued 365 officers and men, and sent a gig to rescue Lord Gort on 29 May 1940. He later served with the corvette H.M.S. Gentian operating in the Western Approaches, escorting convoys across the North Atlantic.