Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

A Second World War B.E.M. awarded to Boatswain J. H. Crofts, Merchant Navy

British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (Joseph H. Crofts), edge nicks, good very fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the collection of Angela and the late Douglas Bertram.

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B.E.M. London Gazette 4 January 1944.

Joseph Henry Crofts, who was born in July 1892, was decorated for his services as Bosun of the M.V. Lochmonar, a cargo liner of the Royal Mail Lines (Seedie’s refers). His only other entitlement for the Second World War was to the 1939-45 Star and War Medal (official records refer).