Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Lieutenant (Recruiting) T. J. Williams, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Minesweeping 1945-51 (D/KX. 78964 P.O.S.M., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (KX. 78964 P.O. Rec., H.M.S. President), minor contact marks, generally good very fine (7) £180-220

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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Thomas John Williams ‘joined the Navy as a Stoker in the early 1930s and during the last war served in minesweepers and the battleships Renown and Rodney. After the war he worked at the Royal Navy recruiting offices in Swansea and Cardiff’ (local newspsper obituary refers). He was commissioned as a Lieutenant (Recruiting) in March 1958.

Sold with an original Certificate for Hurts and Wounds, as issued to the recipient while serving aboard H.M.S. Berwick in December 1931, when, in the course of the China Fleet Open Boxing Championships, he was ‘struck on the jaw by his opponent, whereby he sustained a double fracture of the lower jaw.’