Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Petty Officer Engineering Mechanic N. Pollard, Royal Navy

War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (D/KX.100386 N. Pollard. P.O.S.M. R.N.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (D/KX.100386 N. Pollard. P.O.M. (E). R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (KX.100386 N. Pollard. P.O.M. (E). H.M.S. Cumberland.) good very fine and better (5) £280-£320

Newton Pollard was awarded his Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 28 July 1958 whilst serving in H.M.S. Cumberland, which at the time was the Royal Navy’s ‘first trials’ cruiser - between 1951 and 1959 she was used for trials of pre-wetting systems, anti-ship missiles, new anti-aircraft guns, and silent propellers.