Seven: Stores Chief Petty Officer L. L. Payne, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; War Medal; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Yangtze 1949 (C.MX 51147 L. L. Payne. St. C.P.O. R.N.); Coronation 1953; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue (MX.51147 L. L. Payne. S.C.P.O. H.M.S. London); Netherlands, Kingdom, Gold Medal of Honour in the Order of Orange Nassau, with Swords, silver-gilt, mounted for display, very fine (7) £1,000-£1,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2017.

Netherlands, Gold Medal of Honour with Swords London Gazette 12 July 1949: ‘For services rendered to the Royal Netherlands Navy during the War.’

Leslie Laurence Payne served as Stores Chief Petty Officer aboard H.M.S. London during the Yangtze incident and received his L.S. & G.C. aboard the same ship in December 1949.