Family Group:

Three: Able Seaman F. W. E. Bullen, Royal Navy
British War and Victory Medals (J. 83345 F. W. E. Bullen. A.B. R.N.); London Private Fire Brigade Association Long Service Medal (316) extremely fine

Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 1st issue (Richard Augustus Bullen), on original mounting pin for wear, extremely fine (4) £70-£90

Francis William Ewart Bullen, a banknote printer with Messrs. Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ltd., was born in Hoxton, London, on 30 June 1898. He attested into the Royal Navy on 15 December 1916, for service during the Great War and served afloat in H.M.S. Retriever and H.M.S. Taurus, serving off the Belgian coast. Demobilised on 12 February 1919, he joined the London Private Fire Brigades Association as member of the the Brigade run by his employers. He was awarded his Bronze Long Service Medal in 1929 and later retired as an active member on 31 December 1943. The grant of a silver medal was made to the recipient on 26 May 1949. He died aged 94, on the Isle of Wight, in September 1992.

Richard Augustus Bullen, brother of the above, was awarded the Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement from the General Post Office (London Gazette 20 July 1956). He died in Southwark, London, in 1972.

Sold with a very detailed article published in The Orders and Medals Research Society Journal in June 2011, in relation to the award of these medals, together with copied photographs and detailed copied research.