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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 211

Four: Sick Berth Petty Officer R. L. Padwick, Royal Navy, who was 'mentioned' for services in North Russia

1914-15 Star (M.2549, R. L. Padwick. S.B.A., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oakleaves (M.2549 R. L. Padwick. 2 S.B.S., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.2549 R. L. Padwick. S.B.P.O., H.M.S. Egmont), second with edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (4)

M.I.D. London Gazette 12 December 1919 (North Russia).

Reginald Leonard Padwick was born at Winchester, Hampshire on 29 June 1892. A motor driver by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Probationary Sick Berth Attendant on 2 November 1910, becoming a Sick Berth Attendant on 22 June 1911 and 2nd Sick Berth Steward on 1 July 1916. During the course of the war he served aboard King George V, at Haslar Hospital - qualifying as an Operating Room Attendant in January 1917 - and aboard the Latona. In April 1919 he served aboard the Hyderabad, a depot ship in North Russia, for which he earned his 'mention'. He attained the rank of Sick Berth Petty Officer on 16 March 1924.

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£260

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