Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Petty Officer F. N. Farncombe, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (J.26647, F. N. Farncombe, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.26647 F. N. Farncombe. L.S. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (J.26647 F. N. Farncombe. P.O. H.M.S. Suffolk) contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £80-£120

Frederick Norman Farncombe, a market gardener from Haywards Heath, Sussex, was born on 12 December 1896. Enlisting in the Royal Navy for Boy service on 12 August 1913, his service during the Great War included service in H.M.S. Albemarle, and his Great War Medals were sent to him in H.M.S. Thunderer. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 26 March 1930, and was advanced Chief Petty Officer on 21 September 1930. He was invalided from the service due to acute hypochondria on 5 July 1933, and died on the Isle of Wight in January 1970.