Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Able Seaman F. G. Walden, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (S.S. 6614 A.B., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine or better (7) £100-120

Frederick George Walden, a sailmaker from Southampton, who was born in July 1896, entered the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman in November 1915, and first went to sea in H.M.S. Malaya in January 1916, in which battleship he was present at Jutland. On that occasion, as a component of the 5th Battle Squadron, the Malaya was heavily engaged in the ‘run to the north’, receiving several heavy calibre hits from Admiral Scheer’s force and sustaining casualties of 67 killed and 33 wounded. Coming ashore to an appointment in Victory I in November 1917, Walden appears to have been employed as an Admiral’s servant at the gunnery establishment Excellent prior to reporting to Attentive III, the Auxiliary Patrol base at Dover, in April 1918, where he remained employed until the end of hostilities. He was demobilised in December 1920, in which month he was enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve. In the 1939-45 War, Walden is believed to have participated in the Dieppe Raid in August 1942.