Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Electrical Artificer Class 1 J. M. Dyer, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (344558 C.E.A. 2, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (344558 C.E.A. 1, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (344558 Ch. Elec. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Caesar), contact wear, very fine and better (4) £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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James Millar Dyer was born at Dundee, Scotland in July 1876 and entered the Royal Navy as an Acting Electrician in August 1901. By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he was serving as a Chief Electrical Artificer 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Caesar, and he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. in November 1916. A brief appointment in the armoured cruiser Duke of Edinburgh followed from April to June 1918, when he came ashore to the training establishment Defiance. Dyer was finally pensioned ashore in June 1922.