Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1182

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£240

Three: Sub. Lieutenant H. S. P. Shaw, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (Mid., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (S. Lt., R.N.); together with a small silver plaque, inscribed ‘Medals of the late Sub. Lieut. Henry Staveley Pilkington Shaw, R.N.’, extremely fine (3) £80-100

Henry Staveley Pilkington Shaw drowned on 12 January 1918 whilst serving aboard H.M.S. Apal. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Portsmouth Memorial.