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Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (Sig. T. J. Drew, S.A.N.F. (V)) officially engraved naming, nearly extremely fine £100-£140

Dix Noonan Webb, March 2008.

Thomas John Drew was born on 14 July 1916. He was a traveller by calling and married to Yvonne Mary Barker when he enrolled in the South African Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (No. D 3542) on 1 July 1935 at Durban. He was initially rated as Signalman Recruit until rated as Ordinary Signalman in March 1938, and then Signalman in July 1938. His initial posting was to Milford until October 1936, and then Neptune. He was struck off the Roll of the S.A. Division of the R.N.V.R. and transferred as a Signalman to the R.N.V.R. War Reserve (No. WR 628) on 1 April 1939. In October 1940 he was transferred to the South African Naval Force (No. 68154V). During the next four years or so he was transferred to various posts including Afrikander, Stag, Nile, Assegai, and Cape Fortress, and Durban Fortress until discharged at Durban on 16 October 1945.

Drew's full medal entitlement is: 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with clasp North Africa 1942-43, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, Africa Service Medal, and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Long Service Medal.

Sold with copied service papers.