Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Signalman A. H. Faulkner, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, attached Royal Naval Division

1914 Star (SX1/361 A.B., R.N.V.R., Howe Bttn. R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (S.1-361 Sig., R.N.V.R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, the second with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine (7) £180-220

Arthur Herinon Faulkner, a clerk from Bowes Park, North London, who was born in June 1893, enlisted in the Sussex Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, in August 1914, stating he had 18 months prior service in the London Division, R.N.V.R. Quickly posted to Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division, he served in the Antwerp operations prior to returning to the U.K. to attend a signalling course at the end of October - his service record stating ‘1914 Star riband sent to O.C. H.M. Armed Drifters, Ramsgate’ in June 1918. In the interim, having qualified as a Signaller in December 1914, Faulkner had actually been drafted back to service afloat with the Merchant Fleet Auxiliary, namely in H.M. Drifters & Yachts - thus his appointments in Rooke (March 1915 to September 1917) and Magnolia II (October 1917 to February 1919). He was demobilised in the latter month.