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Auction: 24113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 559

(x) Eight: Chief Engine Room Artificer F. W. Myers, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Burma Star; Defence Medal & War Medals 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (C/MX. 66303 F. W. Myers. E.R.A.2. R.N.); Royal Naval L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (C/MX66303 F. W. Myers. C.E.R.A. H.M.S. Forth), mounted as worn, official correction to the number and initials on the last, otherwise very fine (8)

Frederick William Myers was awarded his Naval L.S. & G.C. on 2 June 1955.

HMS Forth, pennant number F04, later A187, was a submarine depot ship. She was completed in 1939 and served at bases in Scotland including Holy Loch on the Firth of Clyde and at Halifax in Canada during the Second World War. During the War, Forth was adopted by Stirlingshire as part of Warship Week. During her stay in Malta in the 1950s she was moored on the east side of Msida creek. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and left Malta in 1960.

HMS Forth was modified to support the Royal Navy's nuclear-powered submarines at H.M. Dockyard Chatham between 1962 and 1966. She arrived in Singapore in mid-1966 to relieve H.M.S. Medway (former landing craft tank H.M.S. LCT 1109) as depot ship of the 7th Submarine Squadron. She left Singapore to return to the United Kingdom on 31 March 1971 and was decommissioned in 1979; sold with a photograph of Myers in uniform.

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Sold for
£170

Starting price
£130