Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Able Seaman A. F. Rendell, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (J.9701, A. F. Rendell, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.9701 A. F. Rendell. A.B. R.N.); together with the recipient’s Corps of Commissionaires Medal, silver and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘A. Rendell’, nearly very fine

Three: Corporal A. F. Rendell, Royal Air Force, who was taken Prisoner of War by the Japanese, and died in captivity in Thailand on 16 October 1943
1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Air Council enclosure and medal entitlement ‘ticker tape’, in card box of issue addressed to ‘A. F. Rendell, 5 Longford Road West, North Reddish, Stockport, Cheshire’, extremely fine (7) £200-£240

J.9701 Able Seaman Arthur Francis Rendell was born in Clifton, Bristol, on 1 December 1894 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 2 September 1910. Advanced Able Seaman on 2 June 1914, he served for the entirety of the Great War in H.M.S. New Zealand, and was discharged, time expired, on 30 November 1924, after 12 years’ man’s service.
Sold with original Parchment Certificate of Service.

646127 Corporal Arthur Francis Rendell, the son of the above, was born in 1921 and served during the Second World War with the Royal Air Force. Captured by the Japanese and taken Prisoner of War, he died in captivity on 16 October 1943, and is buried in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand.