Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain P. W. Clark, Mercantile Marine

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45; together with the recipient’s Incorporated Thames Nautical Training College Medal, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1922, the reverse engraved ‘P. Clark’, with double-dolphin suspension, good very fine and better (4) £80-£100

Paul Wilson Clark was born in Hammersmith, London, on 10 October 1911, the son of Captain W. A. Clark, Royal Naval Reserve. Educated at Barrow Hedges School, Carshalton, he later studied at the Incorporated Thames Nautical Training College (H.M.S. Worcester) and left to join P & O on 28 July 1928. The recipient’s Training Record makes for fascinating reading; initially stated on 16 December 1926 as ‘inclined to be troublesome’, he graduated two years later with a Certificate noting ‘First Class Extra’ in Scholastic and Seamanship.

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