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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 302

Pair: Able Seaman J. E. Brunyce, Royal Navy

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (J. 633 J. E. Brunyce, Boy 1 Cl., H.M.S. Hyacinth); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (J. 633 J. E. Brunyce, Ord. Sean., H.M.S. Hyacinth), good very fine (2)


James Edward Brunyce was born at St. Martin's, London on 24 December 1891 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in February 1908. He subsequently served aboard H.M.S. Hyacinth from March 1909 until June 1911, in which period he witnessed active service off Somaliland (Medal & clasp) and in the Persian Gulf (Medal & clasp). An Able Seaman aboard the battleship Dominion on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he remained likewise employed until coming ashore in October 1915. His next seagoing appointment was in the destroyer Termagant (March 1916-November 1917) and he ended the war aboard another destroyer - Versatile - as part of the Harwich Force. Brunyce finally came ashore in December 1921; sold with copied service record.

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£210