Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Attributed to Coder S. R. Green, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, with Admiralty enclosure, in card box of issue, the address label torn and the only legible part being ‘[West Qui]nto[n], Birming[ham]’, extremely fine (4) £60-£80

Sydney Renard Green was born in Birmingham on 16 April 1914 and volunteered for the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Coder in H.M.S. Wellesley on 4 February 1941. He served during the Second World War in a variety of ships and shore based establishments, and was promoted Coder on 4 December 1941. Service included aboard H.M.S. Cabbala in the Far East from March to May 1941, and then in H.M.S. Berwick from 17 July 1941 to 27 September 1943, in which ship he took part in the Arctic Convoys, including the Defence of Convoys PQ12 and QP8 against the Tirpitz in March 1942. He saw further service in H.M.S. Dacres during the Normandy Landings, and was discharged from H.M.S. Mercury on 5 March 1946.

Sold with original Parchment Certificate of Service; a photograph of the recipient in uniform and a caricature portrait; a Crossing the Arctic Circle Certificate, dated 9 June 1943; and other ephemera and copied research.