An extremely rare inter-war Antarctic exploration pair awarded to

An extremely rare inter-war Antarctic exploration pair awarded to Lieutenant J. H. Martin, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was killed in action when the special service ship H.M.S. Willamette Valley was torpedoed in June 1940 His obituary in the Royal Geographical Society’s Journal stated that his career was ‘without parallel in recent times’ but that he was ‘quite unconscious of his own remarkable qualities’: modest he may have been but happily his name lives on in the form of ‘Martin’s Reef’ off Mawson’s coast in MacRobertson’s Land in East Antarctica Polar Medal 1904, G.V.R., bronze, 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Antarctic 1929-31 (James H. Martin.); Polar Medal 1904, G.VI.R., silver, 1 clasp, Antarctic 1935-37 (James Hamilton Martin) nearly extremely fine (2) £10,000-£14,000.

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