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

A Second Word War M.B.E. group of three to Wardmaster Lieutenant A. W. Coules, Royal Navy

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed as issued, generally nearly extremely fine (3) £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to Royal Naval Sick Berth Personnel from the collection of John Hailey.

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M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1942.

Albert William Coules was born in Margate, Kent on 22 November 1889. A Lamplighter by occupation, he entered the Royal Navy on 18 May 1908 as a Probationary Sick Berth Attendant. Attaining the rank of 2nd Sick Berth Steward in 1911, he served for most of the Great war aboard the pre-dreadnaught battleship Hibernia and later at Chatham Hospital. He was commissioned Wardmaster on 9 November 1936 and Wardmaster Lieutenant on 13 December 1938. For his subsequent services at the R.N. Barracks, Chatham, in the Second World War he was awarded the M.B.E.

Sold with original M.B.E.warrant and enclosure in envelope; also with some copied service papers.