Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Leading Seaman N. A. V. Lawson, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, all privately inscribed, ‘N. A. V. Lawson, R.N.’, mounted as worn, together with the recipient’s original M.I.D. certificate in the name of ‘Leading Seaman Norman Alexander V. Lawson, and dated 11 June 1946, this framed and glazed, generally good very fine (6) £80-100

Norman Alexander Valentine Lawson was mentioned in despatches for services in H.M.S. Quality (London Gazette 11 June 1946). The Quality, a destroyer, entered service in September 1942, and was deployed in operations in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Pacific, including service off Sabang in 1944 and Okinawa in 1945.

In September 1945, she and H.M.A.S. Nepal were the first ships to go upriver and berth in Tokyo, their crews reinforced by 300 R.N. and R.M. personnel who oversaw the re-opening of the British embassy, while in October she was transferred on loan to the Royal Australian Navy.