An impressive Great War and 1939-45 War campaign service group of twelve awarded to Chief Petty Officer P. J. Hale, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, late Royal Navy, a recipient of a very rare R.N.V.R Long Service Medal with 2 Bars

1914-15 Star (J. 71688 P. J. Hale, O.S. 3, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J. 71688 P. J. Hale, A.B., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; Defence and War Medals, these five privately inscribed, ‘J. 71688 P. J. Hale, C.P.O., R.N.’; Jubilee 1935, privately inscribed, ‘J. 71668 P. J. Hale, C.P.O., R.N.’; Coronation 1937, privately inscribed, ‘LD/667 P. J. Hale, C.P.O., R.N.V.R.’; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Long Service, G.V.R., 3rd issue, with two Bars (LD/X. 667 P. J. Hale, P.O., R.N.V.R.); Russia, Cross of St. George, 4th class, the reverse officially numbered ‘063811’, the earlier awards with edge bruising and polished, thus good fine or better, the 1939-45 awards generally good very fine (12)
£600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals The Property of a Gentleman.

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Diuglas-Morris lists a total of 13 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S. & G.C’s in his Naval Long Service Medals.

Percy Jack Hale was born in Edmonton, London, in February 1896, and joined the Royal Navy in November 1914. His subsequent wartime appointments included the battleship H.M.S. Marlborough (December 1914 to August 1915), the sloop Mimosa (September to October 1915), and the battleship Orion (from December 1915 until the end of hostilities), aboard which latter ship he was present at Jutland and was advanced to Able Seaman. Demobilised in April 1919, he sometime thereafter joined the Tyne Division of the R.N.V.R. and was awarded his Long Service Medal in April 1934, to which he added two Bars in May 1953 (the official roll refers); also sold with roll confirmation for his subsequent award of the Coronation Medal 1937 and copied Great War period service record, but his Russian decoration remains unverified.