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Pair: Supply Sub-Lieutenant B. Wintie, Royal Navy
General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Borneo, Malay Peninsula (Supply Sub. Lieut., R.N.) clasps connected by cotton; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (MX. 790032 C.P.O.Ck (S)., H.M.S. Collingwood) mounted as worn, very fine (2) £100-140
Brian Wintie was born in 1928 and joined the Royal Navy c.1948. Awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal c.1963 as Chief Petty Officer Cook serving at H.M.S. Collingwood - the R.N. training establishment at Farnham, Hampshire. Commissioned an Acting Supply Sub Lieutenant on 1 January 1964. Served as the Cookery Officer aboard H.M.S. Albion 1964-66 during the Borneo-Malaya operations. Latterly serving at H.M.S. Ospey - R.N. Air Station, Portland. He retired in 1969 and died in Reading Berkshire in June 2001. With copied service notes and newspaper extract.
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