Five: Lieutenant (E) J. E. Creasey, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, late Petty Officer Telegrapher, Royal Naval Volunteer (Wireless) Reserve

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Admiralty enclosure, in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. J. E. Creasey, 58 Hinkley Road, Leicester’; Royal Naval Volunteer (Wireless) Reserve L.S. & G.C. (P/WRX.54 J. E. Creasey. P.O. Tel. R.N.V. (W) R.) generally very fine and better, the last scarce (5) £200-£240

Approximately 200 Royal Naval Volunter (Wireless) Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct medals issued.

John Edward Creasey was born on 6 March 1900. He appears in the 1939 Register as an Electrical and Radio Engineer, residing at 58 Hinkley Road, Leicester, he also describes himself as A/Petty Officer Telegraphist, R.N.V.(W) R. He was awarded the Royal Naval Volunteer (Wireless) Reserve Long Service Medal on 23 February 1942, the medal being sent to H.M.S. Royal Arthur. He is recorded in the February 1944 Navy List as Sub Lieutenant (E), Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, with seniority of 7 December 1942, and in the October 1944, Navy List as Lieutenant (E), R.N.V.R., with seniority of 7 December 1944, serving in H.M.S. Copra. He is also noted as having served in 276 L.C.I. (L) landing craft Flotilla, and was released from service on 3 June 1946.

Sold with the recipient’s personal naval signals handwritten notebook.