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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 634

Five: Writer C. E. Binns, South African Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, Africa Star; British War 1939-45, Africa Service Medal, mounted court-style for wear, second and fourth with contact marks, bruising on fifth very fine, otherwise good very fine (5)

Clifford Edmund Binns, was born on 16 November 1907. He lived in Cape Town and joined the South African Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 1 July 1927. For the bulk of the war he served aboard HMS Hawkins, a heavy cruiser mainly utilised in the South Atlantic. Here she performed convoy escort duties and hunted for U-boats and other commerce raiders. In 1942 his health was reclassified as 'E' and he was given the rank of Writer. Later posted to the Shore Establishment HMS Tana in East Africa, he was discharged from the South African Naval Forces (formed in 1942 from the SDF and the RNVR) on 7 September 1944 as medically unfit; sold together with copied research.

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£60

Starting price
£30