Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant G. A. Ranson, Royal Naval Reserve, who was awarded the Russian Order of St. Stanislaus for minesweeping duties

1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.N.R.); Russian Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd class breast badge, with swords, by Edouard, gold and enamels, with ‘56’ mark and St. Petersburg 1908-17 stamp on eyelet, in its (damaged) case of issue, the third with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine and better (4)
£600-800

Ranson is recorded on the C.W.G.C. register as having died on 11 January 1919, while serving in H.M.S. Leda. He is buried in Enfield Highway (St. James’s) Churchyard; sold with two original wartime newspaper cuttings which confirm the award of the St. Stanislaus for his work in minesweeping.

London Gazette 4 February 1916, p.1359