Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Chief Pilot Master J. Spink, Trinity House and Mercantile Marine
British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (John Spink) good very fine

Pair: T. Olsen, Mercantile Marine
British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Tudor Olsen) polished, nearly very fine

Pair: Samuel H. Winter, Mercantile Marine
British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Samuel H. Winter) good very fine (6) £100-£140

John Spink was born in Great Yarmouth in 1854 and served both with the Mercantile marine during the Great War and served as a Chief Pilot Master for Trinity House at the Port of Liverpool.

Sold with the recipient’s Authority to War document for the Great War awards; OHMS transmission envelope, addressed to ‘Mr. J. Spink, 30 Seaforth Road, Seaforth, Liverpool’; and a portrait photograph of the recipient in his Trinity House uniform.

Tudor Olsen was born at Llenelly on 5 September 1903 and served with the Mercantile Marine during the Great War. He subsequently attested for the Royal Engineers and served with them in the inter-War years, being recalled for service following the outbreak of the Second World War.

Samuel Hugh Winter was born in Farnworth on 8 June 1899 and served as a Radio Operator in the Mercantile Marine in S.S. Carpathia, S.S. Circassia, and S.S. Montana.

Sold with copied research.