Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

Family group:

Four: Chief Electrician E. Stringer, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. Oakleaf; Royal Navy L.S.& G.C., G.VI.R. (JX.126249 P.O., H.M.S. Franklin), mounted as worn; together with a silver sports medal, 'Inter Part Hockey 1931, H.M.S. Cumberland, E. Stringer'

Pair: Private G. P. Stringer, Durham Light Infantry

British War and Victory Medals (22-33 Pte., Durh. L.I.) extremely fine (7)
£120-160

Medals to E. Stringer sold with the recipient’s original Certificate of Service (this damaged); M.I.D. Certificate; R.N. Certificate of the Educational Test, Part 1; photographs of the recipient in uniform and other papers.

Edward Stringer was born on 20 May 1910 in the Parish of Chester-le-Street in the County of Durham. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in February 1926 and in his early years served aboard the battleship H.M.S. Emperor of India and the battlecruiser H.M.S. Tiger. He gained the rank of Petty Officer in 1937 and Chief Petty Officer in 1943. Throughout the Second World War he served aboard the minesweeping sloop H.M.S. Franklin and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 27 February 1945) for the invasion operations of 1944. In 1946 he attained the rank of Chief Electrician and was Pensioned in 1950.