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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 996

Six: Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class W. Cope, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1915-62, 2 clasps, Palestine 1936-39, Minesweeping 1945-51 (MX.51967 W. Cope. E.R.A.4. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (MX. 51967 W. Cope. E.R.A.2. H.M.S. Saker.), the second clasp to first attached with thread, mounted as worn, very fine and better (6)

William Cope was born on 19 December 1908, the son of Walter Cope, general labourer in a dye works, of 78 Peel Street, Derby. A fitter by trade, Cope joined the Royal Navy on 9 April 1929 and served initially as Stoker 2nd Class at Victory. He was later awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal on 11 March 1944. Historically, Saker I, II and III was the stone frigate to which Royal Naval personnel serving in the United States of America were assigned, however from September 1943 to July 1944 it was also used for the name of British personnel at the Naval Air Station Squantum, and as the name for personnel at the Naval Air Station New Brunswick from August 1943-August 1945 (Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy, by B. Warlow, refers); sold with copied 1911 census details and research.

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Sold for
£290

Starting price
£100