Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Marine F. J. Norris, Royal Marines, who was wounded in service on 29 July 1944
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Director of Naval Pay and Pensions enclosure; together with the recipient’s original parchment Certificate of Service and a Certificate of Wounds and Hurts, dated 29 July 1944, the medals all official later issues, extremely fine

Five: K. Cotterill, Royal Navy
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Burma Star, 1 clasp, Pacific; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted for display, with named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. K. Cotterill, 45 Pinnox Street, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire’; together with an H.M. Destroyer naval cap tally, nearly extremely fine (10) £80-£120

Francis John Norris was born in Ayr on 5 April 1924 and joined the Royal Marines on 8 April 1942. He was injured in service on 29 July 1944, his Certificate of Wounds and Hurts stating ‘... was engaged in loading the main magazine in H.M. LCG(L) 10, with cases of cordite. He, together with Corporal Burns, were in the act of carrying and positioning a case of cordite which was accidentally caused to trap Norris’s fingers against a protruding angle iron, causing a fracture of the middle finger of the right hand.’ He was released Class ‘A’ Reserve on 31 May 1946.

Sold with an original group photograph, and a large quantity of copied research, including a typed transcript of the recipient’s diary covering part of the Second World War.