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

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S., G.VI.R., 1st issue (Ty. Lieut. P. A. G. D. Pridham, R.N.V.R.) extremely fine £80-100

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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Peter Arthur George Drake Pridham was commissioned as a Sub. Lieutenant in the “Wavy Navy” in February 1942 and joined Skirmisher II ‘for Motor Launches’ at Milford Haven in August of the same year. Two months later, however, he transferred to another Coastal Forces establishment, Midge, for minelaying operations in Motor Launches, and, in October 1943, on his advancement to Lieutenant, R.N.V.R., he joined M.G.B. 660 out in the Mediterranean, where he almost certainly saw action. His final appointment appears to have been to the Coastal Forces command ship Razorbill in the same theatre of operations in February 1944, and he was released in April 1946.