Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Senior Radio Officer J. M. Sutton, Royal Fleet Auxiliary

Korea 1950-53 (J. M. Sutton); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (J. M. Sutton) officially re-impressed naming; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Borneo (Sen. Radio Officer J. M. Sutton) rank officially corrected on last, good very fine and a scarce combination (4) £280-£320

Provenance: Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996.

John Mark Sutton was born in Beckenham, South London, in February 1925 and first went to sea in the British Integrity in April 1945, but was not entitled to any campaign awards. Of his subsequent career as a Radio Officer, he served off Korea in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Maine; this ship arrived early in the Conflict in July 1950 at Pusan being the only hospital ship present at that time,and earned the battle honour Korean War for its work. For the Suez campaign Operation Musketeer Sutton served on R.F.A. Tidereach; and off Borneo in the R.F.A. Fort Duquesne. He came ashore at the end of 1972.