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WW1 & WW2 ROYAL NAVY MEDALS J.95570 HENRY J T MEARS H.M.S. CUMBERLAND BRITISH

Offered is a 1939 ? 45 Star, Atlantic Star, War medal (1939 ? 45) all un named as issued, Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (G.V. – coinage head), impressed named J.95570 H.J.T. MEARS. A.B. H.M.S. CUMBERLAND. Swing mounted as worn. Comes with copies of service papers and medal rolls. Henry John Thomas Mears?was born on the 22/1/1904 at Canterbury, Kent. ?A gardener by trade he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a boy seaman on the 25/6/1919. He served on a variety of H.M. ship and shore bases including: Powerful, Impregnable, Ganges, Vigilant, Royal Oak, Cleopatra, Erin,...

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Offered is a 1939 ? 45 Star, Atlantic Star, War medal (1939 ? 45) all un named as issued, Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (G.V. - coinage head), impressed named J.95570 H.J.T. MEARS. A.B. H.M.S. CUMBERLAND. Swing mounted as worn. Comes with copies of service papers and medal rolls.

Henry John Thomas Mears?was born on the 22/1/1904 at Canterbury, Kent. ?A gardener by trade he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a boy seaman on the 25/6/1919.

He served on a variety of H.M. ship and shore bases including: Powerful, Impregnable, Ganges, Vigilant, Royal Oak, Cleopatra, Erin, Raleigh, Royal Sovereign, Calliope, Marshal Soult, Kent, Vanquished, Fortune, Cumberland.

WW2: Cochrane (depot ship) Valorous (V-class flotilla leader destroyer) 25/8/1939?H.M.S Valorous was conducting convoy defence duties in the North Sea and Northwestern Approaches.

Discharged 26/10/1945 and died in Darlington, Durham 1967.

Long service medal issued 1937.

Weight 0.3 kg
Dimensions 24 × 3 × 12 cm

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