Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Chief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic J. S. Williamson, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Minesweeping 1945-51 (P/K. 67055 C.P.O.S.M., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (K. 67055 S.P.O., H.M.S. Kimberley), good very fine and better (2) £160-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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The Kelly-class destroyer Kimberley won no less than eight Battle Honours in the 1939-45 War, ranging from “Narvik 1940” through to “Adriatic 1944”, with “Malta Convoys 1941” and other Mediterranean titles in between. More or less constantly in action after her arrival in the latter theatre of operations, she was torpedoed off Tobruk on 12 January 1942, the resultant explosion blowing off her stern and putting her out of service for nearly two years. But she returned to the fray in time to convey Winston Churchill to the invasion beaches in the South of France in August 1944, and carry out some effective bombardments in the Aegean and Adriatic before the War’s end.