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Sold between 2 March & 1 December 2004

2 parts

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Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee

Oliver Stirling Lee

Lot

№ 119

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1 December 2004

Hammer Price:
£310

Three: J. Greenwood, a dockyard worker on “Service With The Royal Navy”

1914-15 Star
(J. Greenwood, Service With The Royal Navy); British War and Victory Medals (J. Greenwood, Service With The Royal Navy), good very fine and rare (3) £150-200

Accompanying notes suggest that this might be one of just 80 1914-15 Trios so inscribed, the vast majority of which were awarded to dockyard workers who accompanied a Royal Naval ship to sea for a minimum of 28 days (for full details see the Journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society, No. 187, 1985, pp. 102-5).