Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Engineer Commander George Hull, Royal Indian Marine and Royal Canadian Navy

1914-15 Star (Engnr., R.I.M.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Engr. Lt., R.I.M.); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, these three unnamed, very fine and better (6) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Eric Smith.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 17 October 1916. The despatches of Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Lake, K.C.B., ‘General Head Quarters, Indian Expeditionary Force “D”, Basrah, 24th August, 1916’.

George Hull was appointed an Assistant Engineer in the Royal Indian Marine on 12 January 1908 and was advanced to Engineer in January 1911. The rank was re-designated ‘Engineer Lieutenant’ in 1917, and he was promoted to Engineer Lieutenant Commander in January 1919. During the Great War he served in Mesopotamia and was mentioned in despatches. He became a Temporary Engineer Commander in November 1928 when he held the post of Officiating Principal Engineer and Ship Surveyor and Superintending Engineer to the Government of Burma at Rangoon. Holding the same post, he was confirmed in that rank in June 1930. Hull retired from the R.I.M. in April 1937. He became a Temporary Lieutenant Commander (Engineer) in the Royal Canadian Navy in June 1940 and was based at Esquimalt, British Columbia. With copied research.