Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sub-Lieutenant K. R. Tremlett, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, later Somerset Constabulary, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s card identity disc ‘K R Tremlett Sub Lt CoE RNVR’; and St. John Ambulance Association Re-Examination Cross, bronze, the reverse engrave ‘A130095 Kenneth R. Tremlett’, nearly extremely fine (4) £100-£140

M.I.D. London Gazette 10 October 1944:
‘For bravery, skill, and devotion to duty in H.M. Ships ... Balfour ... in anti-U-boat operations.

M.I.D. London Gazette 19 December 1944:
‘For gallantry and skill in anti-U-boat operations in H.M. Ships Balfour ...’

Kenneth Rainey Tremlett, a native of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, was born on 9 November 1917 and joined the Somerset Constabulary on 12 April 1937. He served as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War, and was twice Mentioned in Despatches for his services in H.M.S. Balfour on anti-U-Boat operations in 1944. He returned to the Somerset Constabulary following the cessation of hostilities, and was employed at C.I.D. Headquarters. He resigned at his own request on 11 April 1962.

Sold together with the recipient’s Identity card; Admiralty Letter on the occasion of his release from Naval Service, dated 11 February 1946; Somerset Constabulary Letter, on the occasion of his resignation, dated 11 April 1962; and various newspaper cuttings and other ephemera, including a photograph of the recipient; the recipient’s riband bar; and three British Legion badges.