Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1347

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2 April 2003

Hammer Price:
£310

Six: Commander D. A. G. Herbert, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

1939-45 Star;
Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; R.N.V.R. Decoration, E.II.R., reverse dated, ‘1960’; R.N.V.R. L.S.& G.C., G.VI.R. 2nd type (Lieut., R.N.V.R.), good very fine and better (6) £200-250

Sold with the recipient’s original commission documents as Temporary Sub-Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. dated 1942 and Lieutenant-Commander in the R.N.R. dated 1958; also with a coloured certificate commemorating his crossing the equator dated 1940. With modern photographs of the battleship H.M.S. Royal Sovereign and destroyer H.M.S. Westcott.