Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Marine (late Bugler) A. B. Lawrence, Royal Marines

British War and Victory Medals (PO.19286 Bugr. A. B. Lawrence, R.M.L.I.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue (PO/19286 A. B. Lawrence. Mne., R.M.); Denmark, Kingdom, Slesvig Medal 1920, silver (Bugler A. Lawrence, R.M.L.I.) edge bruising and contact marks, good fine and better (6) £200-£240

Archie Baden Lawrence was born in Hambledon, Portsmouth on 13 March 1902 and enlisted into the Royal Marines at Gosport on 7 August 1917. As a Bugler he served on H.M.S. Inconstant, July to December 1918. His next sea-going appointment was aboard the light cruiser H.M.S. Carysfort, May 1919 to July 1920, seeing service in the Baltic Sea in support of the White Russian forces in the Russian Civil War and then later in 1920 as part of the British and French operations in support of the Slesvig plebiscite. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in May 1935 and was discharged in March 1941 at the termination of his second period of service.