A Royal Canadian Navy Chief Petty Officer's Second World War & Korean War medal group of 7: Chief Petty Officer James Arthur Dyson, Royal Canadian Navy late Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve

- Canada: Canadian Volunteer Service Medal 1939-1945. No clasp
- War Medal. Canadian silver issue
- Korea Medal. Canadian silver issue (J. A. Dyson 51572 'H')
- Canada: Canadian Volunteer Service Medal for Korea
- United Nations: Service medal with clasp 'Korea' (J. A. Dyson 51572 'H')
- Canada: Canada Centennial Medal
- Canadian Forces Decoration. EIIR. With bar (PO 1/C J.A. Dyson)

Note: All named medals are officially named in the correct style

Important: All medals including the 'retrospective' Canadian Volunteer Service Medal for Korea verified entitled and awarded per enumerated service record and reverse of Naval ID card (which latter ID shows all medals except for the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal for Korea, as it had not yet been instituted during the recipients service)

All medals (except for the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal for Korea) are mounted as-worn in the court-style and plated as per the Canadian fashion, and as worn by the recipient. The Canadian Volunteer Service Medal for Korea contained in its original titled card case of issue

The group sold together with:

- Copy set of recipients service file
- Official Canadian Forces personnel 'Identity Card', the ID with photograph of recipient
- Named paper envelope for further award bar for he Canadian Decoration
- Royal Canadian Navy Chief Petty Officer cloth cap badge (this with Malta uniform retailers label on reverse)

Footnote: James Arthur Dyson was a native of, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada where he was born on, 26 January 1927. On 1 December 1944, he joined the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, seeing service in Canadian 'Home Waters' during the Second World War, firstly aboard HMCS Chippawa, and then as a member of the crew aboard HMCS Carleton. He next joined the Royal Canadian Navy on , 11 January, 1947, and was rated 'Air Radio Mechanic'. He achieved the rank of Electricians Mate First Class on, 11 April, 1948. During his long naval career, James served on many ships and bases, including: HMCS Chippawa, Stadacona, Niobe, Ariel, Naden, Cayuga, Antigonish and Rockcliffe, before being posted to HMCS Nootka on August 6, 1951, as a Leading Seaman, Engineering Mechanic First Class. While on active service during the Korean War, James was deployed throughout as a member of the crew of HMCS 'Nootka'. Following the Korean War, he served variously at: HMCS Magnificent, Dolphin, Maidstone, Adamant, Stadacona, Gatineau, Crusader, Springer, Alliance, St. Croix and Margaree and took many upgrade courses throughout his career. Petty Officer 1st Class Dyson applied for the Canadian Forces' Decoration on March 17, 1958, claiming 351 days in the RCNVR (December 4, 1944 to November 19, 1945) as an Ordinary Seaman, along with 11 Years and 14 days in the rank of P1RT4 in the RCN, a total of twelve years' service. As a Petty Officer, he is documented as having volunteered for submarine service in March 1959, as he had been undergoing the Chief Petty Officer First and Second Class, Radio Technician's Qualifying Course but was denied entry, as there was no vacancy. As a member of the Canadian Armed Forces, he received the Canadian Centennial Medal in 1967. He was posted to Fleet School at Halifax on September 20, 1968, and it was here that he applied for the Canadian Forces' Decoration Bar for Ten Years' Additional Service on October 17, 1968, credited with twenty-two years' service, as of January 24, 1968. He was transferred to Canadian Forces Base Edmonton on August 17, 1970 and retired from active service on January 10, 1972, with a total of over twenty-five years in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve and the Royal Canadian Navy combined. He successfully applied for the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal for Korea, being awarded the medal on February 21, 1992. Dyson is recorded as having died on, 4 June, 1995 at, Edmonton, Alberta. At the time of his death he was 68 years of age

HMCS Nootka, Korean War: The tribal Class 'Destroyer' served 2 x tours of duty in Korean Waters - the Second tour being the one in which James Dyson served. During her second tour in Korean waters, Nootka was assigned to the Island Campaign on the west coast, supporting guerrillas and Republic of Korea troops in the islands around Chodo. The ship took part in the Island Campaign in the Haeju region in March 1952. For the majority of 1952, Nootka supported the Island campaign off the west coast. During one inshore patrol around the islands on 26 September, Nootka sank a North Korean minelaying junk, rescuing its crew of five. She returned to Halifax on 17 December 1952 via the Mediterranean Sea, having become the second Canadian warship to circumnavigate the globe and the first destroyer to do so by the Suez Canal.

A very well documented Royal Canadian Navy group, including active service in Korean waters aboard the 'Destroyer' HMCS Nootka during the Korean War

Condition: About EF

Code: 21292