Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War B.E.M. group of six awarded to Petty Officer H. W. F. Holland, Royal Navy

British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (T/P.O. Henry W. F. Holland C/JX.754445); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, campaign awards privately engraved ‘T/P H W F Holland R N C/JX754445’, mounted for wear, generally very fine (6) £200-£240

B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1946.

Henry William Frederick Holland served as a Temporary Petty Officer with H.M.S. Jacinta, a trawler requisitioned by the Admiralty in March 1942. The latter became a dispersal vessel in January 1944.