Five: Temporary Lieutenant S. F. Fowler, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Minesweeping 1945-51 (Ty./Lieut., R.N.V.R.), correction to rank, mounted for display, good very fine (5) £260-300

Stanley Frederick Fowler was appointed a Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (London Gazette 8 August 1941) and Temporary Lieutenant (London Gazette 10 September 1943). He served on the Algerine Class minesweeper H.M.S. Pincher, 1943-46. The ship had battle honours for ‘Normandy 1944’, ‘Atlantic 1945’ and ‘Burma 1945’. In July 1945 she took part in minesweeping operations around, and the bombardment of, Japanese airfields on Puket Island, Salang.

Sold with four original photographs - one of the recipient in uniform and three of H.M.S. Pincher; a note from the Captain certifying the recipient served as Navigating Officer aboard H.M.S. Pincher, 28 October 1943-19 July 1944; a letter dated 11 July 1949 confirming entitlement to the N.G.S. and Clasp for services on the Pincher, addressed to the recipient at 9 East Park Road, Harrogate, Yorkshire; forwarding slip for the N.G.S.; a newspaper cutting on the Pincher; a booklet listing members of the Dover Minesweepers Association, that of Fowler being given as ‘30 Alderson Road, Harrogate, and some copied research.