Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant C. J. C. Wynne-Edwards, Royal Navy, later Lieutenant Commander who served in Admiralty surveying vessels and also in the nuclear submarine H.M.S. Valiant
Korea 1950-53 (Lieut. C. J. C. Wynne-Edwards. R.N.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, a few light surface marks, generally very fine (2) £300-£400

C. John C. Wynne-Edwards was born on 16 July 1930. He commenced naval service as Midshipman with seniority 1 May 1948, and served in H.M.S. Superb from October 1948. He was advanced to Acting Sub Lieutenant from 1 September 1949, joining H.M.S. Finisterre in May 1950. He joined H.M.S. Sparrow in June 1951, serving in her in the Far East and off Korea as a confirmed Sub Lieutenant, and as a Lieutenant, appointed 16 April 1952, until joining H.M.S. Vidal as a hydrographic surveyor and 4th Class Assistant Surveyor in September 1953. He joined the small Surveying Motor Launch (S.M.L. 325) in October 1955, and was in command of this small surveying vessel until moving to H.M.S. Protector, the Ice Patrol Ship in late 1956 where, during the Antarctic summers of 1956-57 and 1957-58 he surveyed the Bismark Strait and Grandidier Channel. He then served in the Hydrographic Office briefly before serving in H.M.S. Cook in the South Pacific, and in H.M.S. Scott as First Lieutenant, having been promoted to Lieutenant Commander on 16 April 1960. In the early 1960s, he served in H.M.S. Egeria in the Inshore Survey Squadron, working mainly in the Southern North Sea and then, from 1965, in the new Ocean Surveying Ship H.M.S. Hydra, again as First Lieutenant before going to Hydrographer’s Office in Whitehall, where his rôle was to bring new surveying ships into service and, especially, the Ice Patrol Ship H.M.S. Endurance, previously the ice-strengthened Danish Anita Dan. At some stage at this time, he also joined the fairly-new nuclear-powered submarine H.M.S. Valiant and undertook a 12,000 mile submerged voyage over 28 days from Singapore to U.K. by way of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. He left the Navy at his own request in late 1967 and later emigrated with his wife to South Africa.

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