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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 350

Five: Acting Gunner (T.) C. Frampton, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J. 113295 C. Frampton, P.O., H.M.S. Defiance), mounted as worn, together with a set of related miniature dress medals, generally very fine (10)


Christopher Frampton was born in Weymouth, Dorset on 3 December 1909 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in March 1925.

An acting Petty Officer at the torpedo establishment H.M.S. Defiance on the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939, he joined the minesweeper Seagull in March 1940 and likely saw extensive service on the Arctic run. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in February 1943, Frampton was advanced to Chief Petty Officer at Defiance in November 1944. Later still - in the summer of 1945 - he was commissioned Acting Gunner (T.), R.N.; sold with copied service record


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