Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Engine Room Artificer F. L. Pritchard, Royal Navy

British War Medal 1914-20 (M.24903 F. L. Pritchard B.Art. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (M.24903 F. L. Pritchard E.R.A. 1. H.M.S. Hawkins.) light contact marks, very fine and better (5) £140-£180

Frank Lycett Pritchard was born in Shrewsbury on 20 October 1901 and enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on January 1919, serving during the Great War post-Armistice in H.M.S. Indus. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 6 December 1932. He saw Second World War service in H.M.S. Charleston, and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 1 January 1943).