Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Able Seaman D. W. Wheeler, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J.110994 D .W. Wheeler. A.B. H.M.S. Goshawk) mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £50-£70

David Wilfred Wheeler, a milkman from Deal, Kent, was born on 10 April 1909. Enlisting in the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 18 July 1924, he was advanced Able Seaman on 10 October 1928, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 27 May 1942.