Pair: Ambulance Officer E. G. Flemen, Mutley Division, St John Ambulance Brigade, who saw active service during the Plymouth Blitz

Defence Medal 1939-45, unnamed as issued; Service Medal of the Order of St John, with one Additional Award Bar (13524 A/Off. E. G. Flemen Mutley Div. No 9 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1935) mounted for wear, extremely fine (2) £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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Ernest George Flemen was born in Plymouth in 1881. A Master Builder by occupation, he served one year in the Plymouth Volunteer Training Corps before attesting for the duration of the Great War in the Devon (Fortress) Royal Engineers in Plymouth on 12 November 1915. Qualifying as a ‘Superior’ Carpenter at Cawsand Battery on 2 March 1917, he was posted to the 1/5th Electric Light Company Royal Engineers at Plymouth on 18 April 1918 and qualified as a Fortress Engine Driver 23 September 1918. Demobilised on 20 February 1919, his Home Service only not entitling him to any war medals, he returned to Plymouth running his own business as a Builder and Undertaker and joined Mutley Division, St John Ambulance Brigade as an ambulance officer. Awarded the Service Medal of the Order of St John in 1935, he saw active service at home during the Plymouth Blitz, and was appointed President of the Mutley Division, St John Ambulance on 2 April 1950. He died in Plymouth on 26 March 1971, aged 89.

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