Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War ‘Arctic Star’ group of seven awarded to Owen C. Wright who served in the Royal Navy as an Ordnance Section rating with the Fleet Air Arm aboard the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Indefatigable

1939-45 Star; Arctic Star; Burma Star, 1 clasp, Pacific; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these five all unnamed as issued and mounted court-style as worn; together with Russia, Ushakov Medal, reverse officially numbered ‘4039’ with accompanying named certificate in case of issue; Russia, 70th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War Medal, in box of issue, good very fine (7) £500-£700

Sold with a contemporary photo album containing some 55 photographs, mainly aboard H.M.S. Indefatigable, many of the aircraft carrier including her Supermarine Seafire fighters and Grumman Avenger torpedo bombers, others including her immediate post-war tour of New Zealand, and later ones of Burma Star Association V.J. parades; together with named Crossing the Line Neptune certificate, dated 1 February 1945, with accompanying printed booklet and two H.M.S. Indefatigable printed felt pennants, one commemorating her visit to Auckland, New Zealand in 1945. The medals are mounted with a pin and plastic pocket holder bearing his name and address label in Clacton-on-Sea.