Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Acting Armourer’s Mate A. A. Way, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (M.7658. A. A. Way. Ar. Cr., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.7658. A. A. Way. Act. Ar. Mte. R.N.) mounted for display with a Royal Navy Petty Officer’s cloth badge, the suspension on the second slightly bent, otherwise very fine

Four: Chief Petty Officer R. A. Way, Royal Navy
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (JX.142231 R. A. Way. Boy. 1. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted for display with a Royal Navy Button, very fine (7) £200-£240

Alec Albert Way, a Fitter’s Mate from Hammersmith, London, attested into the Royal Navy, as a Boy on 13 October 1910 and served afloat during the Great War in H.M.S. Vengeance and H.M.S. Severn. Advanced Assistant Armourer’s Mate on 4 May 1916, he was invalided from the service on 6 August 1919. He died in Hillingdon, Middlesex around April 1958.

Sold with copied service papers.

Robert Alec Way, son of the above, a Woodworker from Marylebone, London, was born on 26 April 1919. He attested into the Royal Navy as a Boy on 24 July 1924 and served afloat during the Second War in H.M.S. Pelican and assorted shore establishments including H.M.S. Lanka in Ceylon. Advanced Petty Officer on 1 March 1946, he was discharged to the Reserve on 25 April 1949. He died in Westminster, London, on 23 January 1993.

Sold with original service papers, ephemera and photographs.