Auction Catalogue

7 December 2005

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 1086

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7 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£210

Three: Private E. J. Turner, Army Service Corps, late Canteen Manager, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (Ctn. Mgr.); British War and Victory Medals (Ctn. Mgr.); together with a second pair: British War and Victory Medals (DM2-190244 Pte., A.S.C.) good very fine and better (5)

£60-80

Edgar J. Turner appears on the roll of Canteen Staff as ‘Canteen Manager’ on the Colossus. After being discharged from the Royal Navy he re-enlisted into the Army Service Corps.

Sold with copied photograph, extract from Canteen Staff roll, original but damaged lids for the card boxes containing the 1914-15 Star trio, named to him as ‘Canteen Manager’ .