Six: Able Seaman H. Clements, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Malta George Cross 50th Anniversary Medal 1992, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style as worn, with original named card box of issue addressed to the recipient at ‘Trehan, Nr. Saltash, Cornwall’, good very fine (6) £120-£160

Herbert Clements, a kennelman from Sheffield, Yorkshire, was born on 17 October 1918. He attested into the Royal Navy on 11 October 1939 for service during the Second War and served afloat in H.M.S. Gloucester in the Mediterranean before her sinking at the Battle of Cape Matapan, having been transferred to H.M.S. Nile the previous month. He saw later service afloat in H.M.S. Whaddon on North Sea convoy escort and patrol duties and later in the Mediterranean afterwards based at H.M.S. St. Angelo in Malta. Released from the service on 26 November 1945, he was awarded his Maltese 50th Anniversary Medal on 11 May 1993.

Sold with original service records, detailed original papers including a telegram and original photographs of the recipient in uniform, the original franked letter for the award of his Maltese 50th Anniversary Medal, and detailed copied research.