Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Leading Seaman C. R. Ringer, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Ajax during the Battle of the River Plate on 13 December 1939, and was wounded by shrapnel during the Battle of Cape Passero, off Sicily, on 12 October 1940

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; War Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn; together with fiver R.A.O.B. Masonic Jewels, all named to the recipient as a member of the Ormond Lodge, nearly extremely fine (9) £300-£400

Clarence Russell Ringer was born in Hethersett, Norfolk, on 10 September 1922 and enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Ganges on 15 August 1938. He joined H.M.S. Ajax on 9 June 1939, and served in her for the next four years, being present in her engagement along with H.M.S. Achilles and H.M.S. Exeter against the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee at the Battle of the River Plate on 13 December 1939. He was granted a Hurt Certificate from ‘Shrapnel wounds to back of neck, right shoulder, and back received in action on 12 October 1940’, during the Battle of Cape Passero, off Sicily, and was advanced Acting Leading Seaman on 1 June 1943. He was discharged from H.M.S. Pembroke on 4 December 1943, physically unfit for Naval Service.

Sold with the recipient’s original Parchment Certificate of Service; original Certificate for Wounds and Hurts; Admiralty enclosure; an H.M.S. Ajax Naval Cap Tally; a small family photograph album; and various postcards; Press Photographs; and magazine and newspaper cuttings relating to the recipient’s service career, especially regarding the Battle of the River Plate.