Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Stoker First Class J. D. Hall, Royal Navy, later Sergeant, Royal Air Force

British War and Victory Medals (K.51303 J. D. Hall. Sto. 2. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (351570. Sgt. J. D. Hall. R.A.F.) light contact marks, very fine and better (7) £80-£100

James Dean Hall was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 27 May 1900 and joined the Royal Navy for the duration of the Great War on 9 May 1918. Serving in the minesweeper H.M.S. Belvoir, he was advanced Stoker First Class on 17 March 1919, and was shore demobilised on 2 May 1919. He later joined the Royal Air Force, and at the outbreak of the Second World War was serving as a Sergeant in the Royal Air Force based at R.A.F. Speke. He died in 1967.