Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Senior Purser A. G. Sykes, Royal Fleet Auxiliary

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (A. G. Sykes.); General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Borneo, Malay Peninsula, second clasp loose on riband (Ship’s Clerk A. G. Sykes) latter partially officially corrected, nearly extremely fine, the Borneo clasp rare to the R.F.A. (2) £300-£400

Andrew Godfrey Sykes was born in Wandsworth, London, on 8 July 1912, and by the outbreak of the Second World War was a hotel proprietor in Sussex. He entered the Royal Fleet Auxiliary as a Ship’s Writer, joining R.F.A. Wave Emperor on 10 May 1955, and took part in Operation Musketeer in R.F.A. Wave Conqueror. He was advanced Ship’s Clerk on 11 August 1958, and took part in the Borneo and Malay Peninsula operations in R.F.A. Tidepool. He was advanced Purser in in R.F.A. Lyness on 7 September 1971, and was promoted to his ultimate rank of Senior Purser on 10 April 1972. He died in Bath, Somerset, in January 2003, aged 90.

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