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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 554

Nine: Stoker Petty Officer C. W. Redwood, Royal Navy, who was attached to the Royal Canadian Navy in the late 1920s

1914-15 Star (K. 23815 C. W. Redwood, Sto. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K. 23815 C. W. Redwood, Act. L. Sto., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (K. 23815 C. W. Redwood, S.P.O., H.M.S. Dolphin), partial loss of number on the second owing to edge bruising, the Great War period awards worn overall, thus fine, the remainder very fine and better (9)

Clifford William Redwood was born in Farnham, Surrey in November 1892 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in January 1915. He subsequently witnessed active service in the destroyer H.M.S. Syren in the period May 1915 to November 1918. Having then spent time in the submarine depot ship Dolphin and been advanced to Stoker Petty Officer, Redwood was loaned to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1927-29, in which period he served at the Halifax, Nova Scotia shore establishment Stadacona and in the destroyer Patriot and trawler Festubert.

Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in March 1930, when once again employed in Dolphin, Redwood subsequently joined the royal yacht Victoria & Albert and it was in this capacity that he was awarded the Jubilee Medal 1935; the official roll refers. He died in Rochford, Essex in March 1971; sold with copied research.


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