Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Nine: Temporary Lieutenant W. J. L. Gay, Royal Navy and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (J.114537 A.B., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J.114537 L.S., H.M.S. Shrapnel); Cadet Forces Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Ty. Lieut., R.N.V.R.) mounted for wear, nearly extremely fine (9) £260-300

Gay was commissioned a Sub-Lieutenant on 1 September 1946; Lieutenant in February 1949; Lieutenant-Commander in November 1958 and retired on 28 May 1961. With a photocopied photograph of the South Western Hotel, Southampton, taken over by the Royal Navy in August 1940 and given the name H.M.S. Shrapnel.