Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (KX. 78589 J. A. Harrison, Sto. 1, H.M.S. Formidable) light contact marks and edge nicks, very fine £60-80

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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The aircraft carrier H.M.S. Formidable won eight Battle Honours in the 1939-45 War, ranging from “Matapan 1941” to “Japan 1945”, with several other major Mediterranean actions in between, in addition to “Okinawa 1945”; of interest, too, in so far as the present catalogue is concerned, is that Oliver Stirling Lee served aboard her for a short period in the summer of 1941.