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Auction: 21102 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction 3
Lot: 251

(x) Seven: Master Mariner J. R. T. Johnson, Merchant Navy

British War Medal 1914-19 (J. R. T. Johnson); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (J. R. T. Johnson); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn, good very fine (7)



James Robert Thomas Johnson was born at Birkenhead on 3 January 1901, the son of Albert Johnson, a watch-maker. He served during the Great War and afterwards aboard S.S. Hector, S.S. Lycaon and S.S. Changuinola. In 1925 he is recorded on a ship sailing to India, described as a 'Ships Officer' leaving from Liverpool to Calcutta, India. He married Gertrude Ellen Hullock at Calcutta in 1938. On 3 December 1946 he returns to India from Southampton as a Master Mariner. He died on 27 February 1974 at Morfa Nefyn, Caernarvonshire; sold with copied census records and a photograph of the recipient.

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Sold for
£220

Starting price
£60