Lot Archive

Lot

№ 371

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8 July 2010

Hammer Price:
£230

British War Medal 1914-20 (14) (Mid. B. O. Babb, R.N.; 278867 A. Hanns, M.A.A., R.N.; J.1343 H. C. Pearce, L. Sig., R.N.; J.79072 H. C. Dunnell, Boy 1, R.N.; J.91028 D. Garland, Boy 1, R.N.; 176063 F. Fitt, Slmr., R.N.; 341433 C. Hobbs, Ch. Amr., R.N.; 341311 W. Smithers, Ar. Mte., R.N.; M.12490 C. Evison, L.V.A., R.N.; 157147 J. Mason, Lg. Btn., R.N.; L.6606 R. O. Burgess, O.S. 2, R.N.; SS.112201 B. H. Drane, Sto. 1, R.N.; Ch. Bosn. J. A. Smith, R.N.; 237485 A. D. Hall, P.O., R.N.) last part officially renamed, some with edge bruising, slack suspensions, nearly very fine and better (14) £160-200

Leading Signalman Herbert Charles Pearce, R.N., drowned on 1 November 1918 when serving aboard the submarine E.35.

Steward 2nd Class Robert Oliver Burgess, R.N., H.M.S.
Vivid, died on 12 April 1920, aged 22 years.

Stoker 1st Class Bertram Henry Drane, R.N., was killed on 30 December 1915 when the armoured cruiser H.M.S.
Natal was destroyed by an internal explosion when at anchor in Cromarty Firth.