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A U.S.A group of four awarded to Lieutenant Carter Carnall Mathies, United States Navy
U.S.A., CHINA SERVICE MEDAL 1937-57, Navy issue; NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDAL; U.S. NAVY EXPERT PISTOL SHOT MEDAL; BRAZIL, NAVAL
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL, silver cross, all unnamed; with a mounted set of four miniature dress medals; together with an
identity disk, ‘Mathies, C. C., 545067 USN “O” Protestant’, extremely fine (9) £120-160
Carter Carnall Mathies was born in Wister, Oklahoma, on 5 December 1933. He graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of
New Mexico in 1954, and was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. Assigned to the destroyer U.S.S. Kidd in the Pacific Fleet.
Awarded the China Service Medal for service on the Kidd off Formosa during the Amoy-Matsu Crisis in 1956. In 1958 he was assigned
as an aide to the U.S. Naval Attache to Brazil. Awarded the Brazil Navy Distinguished Service Medal in 1960. Was later posted to the
U.S.S. Perkins as Operations Officer; he was discharged in 1962.
After his military service he entered the Investment Banking field and was a Senior Vice President with a major international securities
firm until his death in 2006.
With award document for the Brazil Navy Distinguished Service Medal, named to ‘Capitao Tenete Carter Carnall Mathies’ and dated
21 December 1960; case of issue for the Brazilian medal, with riband bar, case with paper label, ‘Lt. Carter Carnall Mathies, USN
545067 Navy Distinguished Service Medal by Brazil’; with copied commission document appointing Mathies ‘Lieutenant (Junior
Grade)’, 3 December 1956, and copied service record; papers in a ‘Department of the Navy’ plastic folder.
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Yugoslavia, Social Federal Republic, ORDER OF LABOUR (3), 1st Class badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse with two
screw-fittings, stamp mark, and impressed, ‘I’ and ‘1217’; 2nd Class, silver and silver-gilt, reverse impressed, ‘II’, with
pin-fitting marked, ‘Znb-Kovnica’; 3rd Class, silver and silver-gilt, with pin-fitting marked, ‘Znb-Kovnica; ORDER OF
NATIONAL MERIT, 3rd Class screw-backed badge, silver and silver-gilt, reverse impressed, ‘III’ and ‘80345’; ORDER OF
BROTHERHOOD AND UNITY, 2nd Class screw-backed badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse with stamp marks and
impressed, ‘57656’; ORDER OF THE PEOPLE’S ARMY, 3rd Class pin-backed breast star, silver, gilt metal and enamel, unmarked;
ORDER OF MILITARY MERIT, 3rd Class pin-backed breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, stamp marks on reverse, very fine
and better (7) £80-100
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