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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 319

A Good Campaign Group of Eight to Leading Signalman C.D. Syer, Royal Navy, Mentioned in Despatches For Services in the Armed Merchant Cruiser Ausonia, 1940
British War Medal (J. 91642 C.D. Syer. Boy. 2 R.N.), suspension slack; 1939-1945 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal, M.I.D. Oak Leaf; Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R. (Charles David Syer), with case of issue; Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd 'coinage head' type (J.91642 (Ch. B. 22083) C.D. Syer. L. Sig. R.F.R.), last officially corrected, otherwise good very fine, with the following related items and documents:
- Two R.A.O.B. named awards
- The recipient's Mentioned in Despatches Certificate, dated 1.7.1941, and Admiralty equivalent of the same date
- Named I.S.M. forwarding letter, dated 1.101.1963
- Second War Campaign Medals Enclosure Slip
- Portrait photograph of recipient in uniform with naval cap tally for H.M.S. Ausonia (lot)

J.91642 Leading Signalman Charles David Syer, born Highgate, London, 1901; joined the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class and was sent to the training establishment Impregnable, 9.8.1918 (therefore his Great War entitlement was a British War Medal only); Signal Boy 19.2.1919; Signalman 1.9.1919; held various postings between the Wars including H.M.S. Verity (destroyer) and H.M.S. Ark Royal (aircraft carrier); Seedies Roll confirms Syer's M.I.D. as an award for services in the armed merchant cruiser Ausonia, a Cunarder that was requisitioned by the Admiralty for duties with the Halifax, Nova Scotia convoy escort in the North Atlantic; after the War Syer was employed as an Assistant Supervisor at a Warehouse, for which work he was awarded the Imperial Service Medal (London Gazette 1.10.1963).

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