MEDALS TO ROYAL NAVY, MERCHANT NAVY & ROYAL MARINES

Lost or stolen: South Atlantic Medal (rosette) & Merchant Navy Medal (1st type) to MARTYN P. COOMBES

 1914/15 Star                    J.28495 C.E. HAMER. BOY 1., R.N.
British War Medal             J.28495 C.E. HAMER. A.B. R.N.
Victory Medal                    J.28495 C.E. HAMER. A.B. R.N.
Naval General Service Medal Palestine 1936-39  M.37211 C.E. HAMER. S.C.P.O. R.N. 
1939-45 Star
Defence Medal
War Medal
Royal Navy Long Service Good Conduct Medal     M.37211 C.E. HAMER. SY. C.P.O. H.M.S. MARAZION

Mounted as worn but bar for wearing has been removed. With original Warrant Officer's warrant. Cyril Ernest Hamer was born in Manchester in July 1898 and joined the navy November 1913. Serving on HMS Hercules (Jutland 1916) until November 1917. Transferred to a new service number (M37211) 1923. Serving on HMS Marazion (minesweeper) 1929, which was posted to Hong Kong. Joined HMS Valiant in 1935 (Palestine 1936). Pensioned July 1938 (Supply Chief Petty Officer). Recalled September 1938 and to Badger September 1939 (Harwich command base for minesweepers). Temp. Warrant Supply Officer. To Merlin 1941 (Naval Air Station, Donibristle, Fife). To Buzzard 1942 (Naval Air Station Palisadoes, Jamaica). To Ringtail 1944 (Naval Air Station Burscough, Lancashire). He died August 1985.
His son, Michael John Harmer, was born at the Royal Naval Maternity Nursing Home, Gillingham 3 August 1938.
Pingat Jasa Malaysia

Medal and miniature in box of issue. Original birth certificate and Royal Navy service sheet. Photo of him being presented with the medal.
Michael Hamer joined the navy 7 February 1956 as a Stores Accountant. May 1956 HMS Dolphin, then Carysfort, Goldcrest, Bellerophon, and in December 1960 to HMS Terror (Singapore) as a Leading Stores Accountant. This would be when he qualified for the medal, buy qualification for the Malaya clasp on the GSM had already ended. Served HMS Maidstone and finally Osprey, when he was discharged in August 1965. 
Father and Son:  RESERVED
Family Lot
1914/15 Star                    J.8226. W.H. MASHMAN. SIG..R.N.
British War Medal             J.8226. W.H. MASHMAN. L.SIG.R.N.
Victory Medal                    J.8226. W.H. MASHMAN. L.SIG.R.N
Imperial Service Medal    WILLIAM HENRY MASHMAN
1939-45 Star
France & Germany Star
War Medal
Imperial Service Medal   CYRIL WILLIAM GEORGE MASHMAN
Father and son. All contained in a wooden box, labelled on front WILLIAM HENRY MASHMAN. Box lid contains family photographs, including two men in WW1 A.O.C. uniforms (there are two MICs for Mashman in the A.O.C.). Boxes of issue for all medals. WW2 box to Mr. C. Mashman and sent from "Royal Armoued Corps".
William was born 1894 in Bermondsey, London. He joined the navy in April 1910 (Boy Signaller), having worked as a Telegraph Messenger. June 1914 he was serving on HMS Highflyer and ended the war on HMS Gibraltar. Discharged January 1920. Joined the Post Officer as a Porter. Married Hilda Louise Munday July 1922. In 1939 he was a GPO Sorter. Imperial Service Medal London Gazette 24 February 1956 as Postal and Telegraph Officer, London Postal Region. He died in London in 1964.
Cyril William George Mashman was born January 1924 to William and Hilda Mashman. In February 1941 he joined the GPO in London. Given his age, it makes sense that he would have served later in the war. His Imperial Service Medal was Gazetted March 1984 "Overseer, London Postal Region". He died in November 1998.
Two London County Council School Attendance Medals named to H. Munday. Two National Association, Teachers of Dance medals for Ballroom and for Latin American. Both named to H. Mashman. Two associated small pin badges. She was born in Bermondsey in 1898 and died in 1969.
Lot: £200
Baltic Medal 
Crimea Medal Sebastopol   H.C. MEDDER.R.N.H.M.S: PRINCESS ROYAL
Engraved naming. Henry Courtis Medder was born July 1840 in Stoke Damerel, Devon. Joined HMS Princess Royal as Assistant Clerk in February 1855 and served in both the Baltic and Crimea on her. Clerk February 1857. In November 1859 there was a mutiny on the Princess Royal, when a section of the crew were unahppy with arrangments made for crew leave while at Portsmouth. The inquiry was fully reported in the newspapers, including the witness statements: "Mr. H.C. Medder, clerk on board Her Majesty's ship Princess Royal,took the names of the men of the lower deck as they came up at the close of the disturbances." The court sentenced the mutineers to three months prison with hard labour. There was a public outcry at the harsh sentence, for what appeared to be a minor affair, and the Admiralty responded by releasing the men after one month. Medder was posted to HMS Nile December 1859 and appointed Assistant Paymaster. To Royal Adelaide April 1864. To Caradoc March 1867 Assistant Paymaster in Charge. To Duke of Wellington June 1869. To the Dee June 1870. Paymaster 9 August 1870. He died 18 August 1872.
Pair: £425
Africa General Service Medal Somaliland 1902-04  F.C. SEARLE. LG. STO.2CL., H.M.S. HYACINTH. £250 RESERVED
Frederick Charles Searle was born in Devonport 17 January 1875. Joined the navy June 1895. Served on Hyacinth from July 1903 to February 1907. When WW1 started he was on HMS Foresight, until January 1917. Ended the war on M32. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Demobed December 1919. His Long Service Medal (Edward VII) was sold at Bonhams in 2005.

Baltic Medal  £190
Unnamed as issued to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines for this campaign fought off the coast of Finland

Mercantile Marine War Medal   HAROLD P. HEWETSON.   £40
Copy medal card with photo. Harold Percy Hewetson was serving on the War Apricot when the war ended.

Mercantile Marine War Medal   GEORGE STEPHENSON     £40
There are five George Stephenson's awarded the Mercantile Marine War Medal. One was killed on the hospital ship Glenart Castle 26 February 1918.  

Mercantile Marine War Medal   ARTHUR J. TURNER     £40
Only one card with this name. Arthur James Turner, born in Leyton in 1898.