Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Three: Air Artificer 4th Class W. A. Normand, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star, clasp, Burma; War Medal 1939-45, all privately engraved, ‘FAA/FX. 75080 A./Art. W.A. Normand, R.N.’, with card box of issue addressed to ‘J.F. Normand, 6 Tichborne Street, Leicester’, and original Admiralty condolence slip, extremely fine (3) £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Jack Deacon.

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William Adam Normand died on 16 February 1942, while attached to H.M.S. Sultan, the R.N. base at Singapore, the day after General Percival had surrendered his forces to the Japanese. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Fleet Air Arm Memorial at Lee-on-Solent.