Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 1st May 2019
Lot 504
The O.B.E. group of five medals to Lieutenant Commander Harold D. Watts-Russell
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £380
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Description
The O.B.E. group of five medals to Lieutenant Commander Harold D. Watts-Russell, O.B.E., R.D. Royal Naval Reserve: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Officer's breast badge (military), Britannia type; 1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medals (LT. COMMR. H.D. WATTS-RUSSELL. R.N.R.); Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, George V; mounted for wearing and preserved in a Gieves Ltd. case; with associated mounted dress miniatures, at least very fine and with original ribbons.
Recommended for his O.B.E. as Officer-in-Charge Submarine Boom Defence Depot, Inverness: "very largely responsible for the maintenance of the Scarpa Flow and Northern Boom Defences since 1914" (10/07/1919)