Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War B.E.M. group of six awarded to Chief Yeoman of Signals F. T. H. Harwood, Royal Navy, later Officer Keeper Grade 2, Foreign Office

British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R. (Frederick Thomas Henry Harwood); 1914-15 Star (J.12339, F. T. H. Harwood, Sig., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.12339 F. T. H. Harwood. L.S. R.N.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J.12339 F. T. H. Harwood. C.Y.S. H.M.S. Carlisle.) the last five mounted as worn, ship partially officially corrected on last, good very fine (6) £240-£280

B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1960: Frederick Thomas Henry Harwood, Officer Keeper, Grade 2, Foreign Office.

Frederick Thomas Henry Harwood was born in Gibraltar on 5 July 1895 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 8 May 1911. He served in H.M.S. London from 1914 to 1916 and saw action at Gallipoli. He was advanced Chief Yeoman of Signals on 17 July 1931. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 7 February 1933, and was shore pensioned on 14 June 1935. He was recalled for the Second World War and served in H.M.S. Fortitude from August 1939 to 5 September 1941, and was invalided 8 August 1945. He died in Bromley June 1969.

Sold with copied record of service and other research, which confirms the award of the Jubilee Medal on 7 May 1935 whilst serving in H.M.S. Defiance.