A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners

Six: Captain R. Fountain, Merchant Navy

British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals 1914-18 (Ronald Fountain); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine or better (6) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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Ronald Fountain, who was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in February 1902, served as an Apprentice in the Mercantile Marine in the Great War and was issued with his British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals in August 1925.

Having then taken his Master’s Certificate in 1927, he was serving in the S.S. Lycaon on the renewal of hostilities in September 1939, but subsequently served in the Asphalion up until being discharged in June 1941; sold with further details.