Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant-General H. N. Martyn, General List, late Chief Inspector, Lancashire Constabulary

Coronation 1937 (Ch. Insp. H. N. Martyn. Lancashire.) contemporarily engraved naming; United States of America, Bronze Star, the reverse engraved Humphrey N. Martyn’, with riband bar and lapel riband bar, in named case of issue, nearly extremely fine (2) £60-£80

United States of America Bronze Star London Gazette 20 March 1947.

Humphrey Neville Martyn was commissioned Second Lieutenant, General List, on 30 August 1943, and was promoted Acting Major on 1 October 1943.

Sold with an unrelated Scandinavian marksman’s medal, silver, the obverse showing an archer in martial pose, with date bars for 1878, 1879, and 1880, in Ivan Throndsen fitted case.

The recipient’s final rank was Lieutenant-Colonel, not Lieutenant-General.