Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War O.B.E. group of nine awarded Harold Ringshaw, Royal Fleet Auxiliary

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (H. Ringshaw); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style as worn, the Second War stars gilded, otherwise very fine (9) £360-£440

O.B.E. London Gazette, 1 January 1955.

Harold Ringshaw was born in Brighton, Sussex, on 22 July 1897. He joined the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and was appointed Chief Engineer, serving in Tankers in R.F.A. Mixol, R.F.A. Gray Ranger, and R.F.A. Orangeleaf during the Second World War. He later served during the Korean War and was awarded the O.B.E. in 1955. He died, aged 71, in Droxford, Hampshire, on 11 June 1969.

Sold together with copied research and Second World War medal entitlement.