A Mercantile Marine War Medal to Albert R. Baarman; Finland & Australia

(ALBERT R. BAARMAN). Naming is officially impressed. Light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: Rolf Uno Albert Baarman was born on October 12, 1887 in Ekenas (Raseborg), Finland, the son of Uno Baarman and Rosa Baarman. After leaving Finland, he resided in England for three years before arriving in Australia in June 1904, disembarking at Adelaide. He was a resident of Queensland, Mullumbimby, New South Wales, having worked as a carpenter, seaman and fisherman, when he enlisted as a Private (1828) with the 4th Pioneer Battalion on February 5, 1916 at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He embarked Sydney aboard the RMS Mooltan on April 12, 1916. Baarman served on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918 and was discharged from service in London, England, on February 19, 1919. He religion was Church of England and he married Eliza Baarman (nee McCormick) in Kirkdale, Lancashire, England in 1919. After the war, he served from 1919 to 1921 with the British Merchant Fleet, resided in the United States after 1925, from 1939 to 1942 he served as a seaman in England, from 1942 to 1943 in South Australia, then served in the Pacific theatre aboard American ships from 1943 to 1945, before returning to South Australia in 1945 and serving there until 1949, at which point he became a naturalized citizen. He retired to civilian life and died in 1966 in South Australia.