Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Second World War B.E.M. group of seven awarded to Greaser T. Marron, Merchant Navy

British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (Thomas Marron); British War and Mercantile Marine Medals (T. Marron); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, North Africa 1942-43 clasp; War Medal 1939-45, extremely fine (7) £220-260

B.E.M. London Gazette 15 June 1945. ‘Thomas Marron, Greaser, S.S. Pasteur, Cunard White Star Ltd.’

Thomas Marron was born in Liverpool on 13 July 1895 and served in the Merchant Navy in the latter part of the Great War and on until his retirement in January 1968. For the greater part of the Second World War he served as a Greaser aboard the Pasteur - his service being recognised in the Birthday Honours of 1945 when he was awarded the B.E.M. Sold with a quantity of copied service papers; original ‘Certificate of Efficiency as Lifeboatman’, dated 1924; damaged card box of issue for the B.E.M. and W.W.2 medal forwarding box addressed to ‘Mr T. Marron, 20 Milton St., Liverpool 3’.