Description
Korea Medal 1950-53, UN Korea, L/SFX 784629 Acting Leading Air Mechanic (Ordnance) J.M. Arundale, Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy.
Officially impressed: “L/SFX.784629 J.M. Arundale A./L.A.M. (O) R.N.”
As an Acting Leading Air Mechanic (Ordnance), serving with the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm Branch, he would have been directly responsible for the handling of the Weaponry being used on the Aircraft which were being deployed from the Navy’s Aircraft Carriers, such as machine guns, bombs, cannons etc.
There is only one man who lived during this period with these initials that can be found:
James M. Arundale, born circa 1927 in Rotherham, Yorkshire and raised in Maltby.
