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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 359

Four: Lieutenant-Commander R. M. Fillery, Royal Navy

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53 (Lieut. (E). R. M. Fillery. R.N.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, mounted as worn, good very fine

Richard Michael Fillery was commissioned Lieutenant on 1 August 1944. He saw service afloat with H.M.S. Norfolk, which acted as Flagship for the stunning Fleet Air Arm attack on Harstad - Operation "Judgement" on 4 May 1945 (The Navy List, October 1945, refers). Following active service off Korea, Fillery was posted to Siskin, curiously managing to collide with a policeman's car late one evening in Portchester (Portsmouth Evening News, 20 December 1955, refers). He retired as Lieutenant-Commander on 29 January 1959; sold with copied research and an assortment of Naval tunic buttons.

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£170