Pair: Officer’s Cook Thomas Johnstone, Royal Navy, who was killed in action aboard H.M.S. Redbreast in July 1917

British War and Victory Medals (L.9560. T. Johnstone. O.C.2. R.N.) extremely fine (2) £70-£90

Thomas Johnstone, Officer’s Cook 2nd Class, was killed in action on 15 July 1917, when H.M.S. Redbreast was sunk by UC-38 in the Mediterranean. He is commemorated by name on the Chatham Naval Memorial.