Pair: Chief Motor Mechanic S. Platt, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

British War and Victory Medals (M.B. 1775 C.M.M., R.N.V.R.), nearly extremely fine (2) £30-40

Squire Platt, who was born in June 1898 and by profession a motor mechanic, enlisted in the R.N.V.R. in November 1916 as a “hostilities only” man. Posted in the following month to Hermione, an Auxiliary Patrol base on the River Hamble, and afterwards at Cowes, he served on M.L. 497 for the remainder of the War, and was discharged in August 1919.