Five: Engineer Lieutenant-Commander J. G. Gundry, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (J. G. Gundry. Actg. E.R. Artr. H.M.S. “Minotaur”); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (J. G. Gundry, E.R.A. H.M.S. Bacchante); British War Medal 1914-20 (Eng. Lt. J. G. Gundry. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (J. G. Gundry, E.R.A., H.M.S. Penelope); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, edge nicks and a little contact wear, otherwise generally good very fine and a scarce combination of awards (5) £500-£700

Provenance: Oliver Stirling Lee Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2004.

John George Gundry was born at Gosport, Hampshire, in September 1859 and entered the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer in March 1882. He subsequently served aboard H.M.S. Minotaur in the Egypt operations of the same year, and in the Bacchante in the Irrawaddy Flotilla during the Burma operations of 1885-87. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in March 1892, Gundry was appointed an Artificer Engineer (Warrant Officer) in March 1898 and commissioned as a Chief Artificer Engineer in April 1903. He was appointed to the newly created rank of Engineer Lieutenant the following year, and ended his career after a posting to Australia. Recalled in August 1914, he served during the Great War as an Assistant for Pembroke, from which establishment he was responsible for overseeing the production of gun-mountings at Woolwich.

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