Naval Medals from the Collection of the Late Jason Pilalas (Part I)

The campaign group of six awarded to Gunner E. N. A. Sayers, Royal Indian Marine, one of a small handful of Naval recipients of the Army G.S.M. for transport duties in the South Persia operations

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (Gunr. E. W. Sayers, R.I.M.S. Minto) note initials but as per medal roll; 1914-15 Star (Gunner E. N. A. Sayers, R.I.M.); British War and Victory Medals (Gnr. E. N. A. Sayers. R.I.M.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (Gnr. E. N. A. Sayers. R.I.M.); Jubilee 1935, one or two edge bruises and light contact wear, otherwise generally good very fine (6) £800-£1,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Naval Medals from the Collection of the Late Jason Pilalas.

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Edward Nelson Alleyn Sayers was born in Eastbourne, Sussex in September 1886 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in the course of 1903. Advanced to Ordinary Seaman in 1904, and to Able Seaman in 1905, he transferred to the Royal Indian Marine as a Gunner in late 1910. He served aboard the R.I.M.S. Minto in the Persian Gulf operations until October of the following year. Sayers next joined the Hardinge and remained in her for most of the Great War, seeing action against the Turks in 1915, when the latter attempted to block the Suez Canal. But it was while detached on transport duties to Bandar Abbas between late 1918 and the summer of 1919 that he qualified for his extremely rare G.S.M. Sayers was promoted to Boatswain in December 1922 and finally retired in October 1937.

Sold with copied record of service and other research.