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Auction: 26001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 144

The campaign group of seven awarded to Chief Petty Officer C. A. Woodhouse, Royal Navy, the recipient of both an Arctic Star and the rare 'Bomb & Mine Clearance 1945-53' clasp to his N.G.S.M.

Naval General Service 1915-62, 2 clasps, Palestine 1936-1939, Bomb & Mine Clearance 1945-53 (Jx. 138176 C. A. Woodhouse. A.B. R.N.), minor official correction to number; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Arctic Star, in its box of issue, with paper label stating 'CPO C A Woodhouse DJX 138176'; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Jx. 138176 C. A. Woodhouse. P.O. H.M.S. Defiance.), mounted as worn besides the Arctic Star, very fine and a good combination (7)

Approximately 145 medals or clasps were issued for six months consecutive work in the disposal of bombs and mines in different parts of the world. The medal was issued with three obverse types, viz. G.VI.R., 2nd issue, and E.II.R., 1st and 2nd issues.

Colin Arthur Woodhouse was born at Kendal, Cumbria in 1916 and served in the Royal Navy from September 1934. Having married in 1941, he took his L.S. & G.C. Medal in August 1949 whilst at the Torpedo School Defiance.

Interestingly this notes his prior service aboard Norfolk, which would place Woodhouse as present during her famous scrapes with the famed German vessels Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, which she shared in detecting in May 1941 while on patrol in Denmark Strait. Norfolk latterly took part in the Arctic Convoys to Russia, where she was involved in the sinking of the Scharnhorst during the Battle of the North Cape on Boxing Day 1943.

Having settled at Stoke, Plymouth, Devon, he died in January 1988; sold together with original Ledger Sheet, Naval Pay & Identity Book, besides riband bar from uniform and other cloth badges for his Torpedo qualifications.

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Estimate
£1,400 to £1,800

Starting price
£1100