Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Ten: Chief Ordnance Artificer B. Lathey, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Malaya (D/MX. 51682 Ch. O.A., R.N.); Korea 1950-53 (D/MX. 51682 C.O.A., R.N.); U.N. Korea; Coronation 1953; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue (MX. 51682 C.O.A., H.M.S. Consort), mounted as worn, the last with officially corrected initial, generally good very fine (10) £300-350

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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Sold with some photocopied newspaper cuttings that indicate the recipient served aboard the cruiser H.M.S. Orion in the Mediterranean during 1943, a period that witnessed her adding “Sicily 1943” and “Salerno 1943” to her very impressive tally of 13 Battle Honours for the 1939-45 War.