Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Chief Electrical Artificer L. C. Stephens, Royal Navy

British War Medal 1914-20 (M.26976 L. C. Stephens. B. Art. R.N.); 1939-45 Star (L. C. Stephens E.A. D/M 26976); Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany (L. C. Stephens. E.A. H.M.S. Rodney.); Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43 (L. C. Stephens. E.A. H.M.S. Rodney.); Italy Star (L. C. Stephens. E.A. H.M.S. Orion.); War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf (L. C. Stephens. E.A.), the Second War awards all contemporarily named; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, with Second Award Bar (M.26976 L. C. Stephens. E.A.1. H.M.S. Rodney.) mounted as worn, the BWM polished, therefore good fine, the rest good very fine or better (7) £240-280

Lionel Charles Stephens was born in Plymouth, Devon, on 12 March 1902, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Artificer on 27 July 1917, serving in H.M.S. Indus (entitled to just a British War Medal). Advanced to Electrical Artificer on 9 May 1924, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 4 April 1939, and served with the Royal Navy throughout the Second World War in H.M.S. Rodney and Orion, being twice Mentioned in Despatches, firstly ‘for outstanding zeal, patience, and cheerfulness, and for setting an example of wholehearted devotion to duty, without which the high tradition of the Royal Navy could not have been upheld’ (London Gazette 1 January 1942); and secondly ‘for gallantry, skill, determination, and undaunted devotion to duty during the landing of Allied Forces on the coast of Normandy (London Gazette 28 November 1944). He remained in the Royal Navy after the Second World War, and was awarded a Second Award Bar to his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

Sold together with the recipient’s Mentioned in Despatches Certificate, dated 1 January 1942.