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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 259

(x) Seven: Lieutenant Commander V. C. Dunne, Royal Navy, late Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53 (Lt. Cdr. V. C. Dunne R.N.); UN Korea 1950-54, mounted as worn, very fine, (7)

Victor Conway Dunne was born on 9 December 1914 at Portsmouth, the 1939 Register listing him as an Electrical Engineer specialising in Traction Control Equipment. On 11 June 1940 he was commissioned a Temporary Sub Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and from 10 August 1942 he served aboard H.M.S. Nile, the Royal Navy base at Ras el-Tin Point, Alexandria. He transferred to H.M.S. Hannibal in May 1944, and on 20 November 1944 he began minesweeping operations aboard H.M.S. Vernon. Transferring to the Royal Navy, he was promoted Electrical Lieutenant Commander on 9 December 1946 before being posted to H.M.S. Jamaica for service in the Far East in June 1950. Co-operating with the United States Navy, Jamaica bombarded North Korean troops as they advanced down the Korean Peninsula. Dunne served in the Equipment and Trials Section of H.M.S. Collingwood from 10 May 1954 before retiring on 9 December 1959, having married Evelyn Booth at Fulham in 1952. He died at Havering, Essex in 1978.

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Sold for
£170

Starting price
£100