Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J. 41968 W. Horwell, A.B., H.M.S. Furious) edge bruising, very fine £60-80

William Hornwell, who was born in September 1899, originally entered the Royal Navy in July 1915.

Sold with a small quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s History Sheet and Trade Certificate for a Royal Naval Diver, Certificate of Discharge, dated at the R.N. Auxiliary Hospital, Newton Abbot on 7 November 1945, Admiralty forwarding slip for his 1939-45 campaign awards and clasps (total 6), and related card box of issue addressed to him at Crediton in Devon.