Campaign Groups and Pairs 480
Six: Chief Ordnance Officer F. J. Gallagher, Ulster Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S. & G.C.,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (UD/X.1094. F. J. Gallagher. Ord. Art. 4 R.N.V.R.) mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £240-£280
The following entry is taken from ‘War Records of some Officers and Men of H.M.S. Caroline 1939-45 [Caroline was the training ship for the Ulster Division of the R.N.V.R.:
‘Chief Ordnance Artificer F. J. Gallagher. Drafted to Singapore at outbreak of war, worked at the naval base there, and being promoted to Chief Ordnance Artificer. After the fall of Singapore, joined a small auxiliary vessel and attempted to escape, but was captured and became prisoner-of-war for three years, suffering dysentry (sic), beri beri, and other privations.’
481 Eight: Sergeant G. V. Fletcher, Royal Marines
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 copy clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, 2 clasps, S.E. Asia 1945-46, Near East unofficial retaining rod between clasps (Po./X. 3349 G. V. Fletcher. Mne. R.M.) minor official correction to prefix to number; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E. II.R., 1st issue (Po/X. 3349 G. V. Fletcher. Sgt. R.M.) mounted as worn, good very fine and better (8)
£260-£300
George Vernon Fletcher was born in Sunderland on 17 January 1921, and enlisted in the Royal Marines at Derby on 8 August 1938. He served during the Second World War with the Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation 2 (M.N.B. D.O. 2), and was promoted Corporal on 19 September 1947, and Sergeant on 29 January 1949. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 20 February 1954, and was pensioned on 16 January 1961.
Sold with the recipient’s Certificate of Service; Certificate of Discharge; Royal Marines Third Class Certificate of Education; and various group and individual photographs, including one of the recipient being inspected by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh at Lympstone in 1954, all of the above apart from the Certificate of Service laminated.
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Six: Gunner J. T. Rudd, Maritime Royal Artillery
1939-45 Star, this privately engraved, ‘4755146 Gnr. J. T. Rudd The Maritime Royal Artillery’; Burma Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star, 1 clasp, Atlantic; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these unnamed, good very fine and better (6)
£80-£120
James Thomas Rudd was born in 20 April 1920 and enlisted in the York and Lancaster Regiment, most likely serving with the 1st Battalion in Norway in April 1940, and then joining the Royal Artillery locally at Brownhill, Lancashire in June 1940. Judging by entries contained in his Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, he would appear to have commenced training as a D.E.M.S. Gunner in August 1943, and to have been a member of 3rd Regiment, Maritime R.A. thereafter. Other accompanying documentation reveals that he was serving aboard the S.S. Empire Tristram from 1943-44, and was possibly therefore present when she was damaged by a flying bomb in Commercial Docks, London in late June 1944. On 19 October 1944 he transferred to the American Liberty Ship S.S. Samtredy and was serving in the Indian Ocean. In died in Kingsbridge, Devon in 1998.
Sold with a quantity of original documentation and photographs, including the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, with several entries for D.E.M.S.- related training courses 1943-45; Soldier’s Release Book, dated at Inkermann Barracks, 13 June 1946; Maritime R.A. 1939-45 War certificate of service; a copy of Instructions for Seagoing Other Ranks of the Maritime Royal Artillery; several shore passes, among them a Tyne Dock Police pass, dated 17 September 1943, giving the recipient’s ship as the S.S. Empire Tristram and an Alexandria Port Police shore leave pass, with portrait photograph, dated March 1944, and also stating the recipient’s ship as the S.S. Empire Tristram; British Legion and R.A. Association membership cards, the former for the Kingsbridge, Devon branch, with entries for the period 1946-52; together with cloth Maritime R.A. uniform insignia, tunic medal ribands, showing entitlement to the ‘Atlantic’ clasp to his France and Germany Star and three identity discs.
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