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Auction: 13003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 81

Four: Petty Officer C.H.V. Sellwood, Royal Navy
1939-1945 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal; Polar Medal 1904-, G.V.R., one clasp, Antarctic 1929-30, bronze, second ´Crowned Head´ type (C.H.V. Sellwood), extremely fine (4)

Polar Medal with clasp 'Antarctic 1929-30' London Gazette 1.5.1934 Clarence H.V. Selwood [sic], British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1929-1931

Clarence Henry Victor Sellwood, born Bradfield, Berkshire, 17.4.1906; enlisted in the Royal Navy, 22.10.1923; served as Assistant Steward in Discovery II during the first BANZARE voyage led by Sir Douglas Moulson; advanced Petty Officer; 'during World War II served in one of the ships which was sunk by the Graf Spee. In 1947 he emigrated to Australia where he is thought to have died in a great flood and earthquake' (British Polar Exploration and Research, Poulsom and Myres refers).

Sellwood's original Polar Medal was incorrectly named 'Selwood'; a replacement medal was issued, but bearing the incorrect clasp 'Antarctic 1929-31'; finally a second replacement was issued with the correct spelling of the recipient's name and the correct clasp.

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£3,800