Three: Chief Stoker P. Hickey, Royal Navy, a veteran of Heligoland Bight 1914, Dogger Bank 1915 and the Battle of Jutland - who was invalided ashore with shell shock in August 1916

1914-15 Star (278031 P. Hickey, Ch. Sto., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (278031 P. Hickey, Ch. Sto., R.N.), contact marks and polished, generally nearly very fine (3) £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brian Kieran Collection.

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Patrick Hickey was born in Liverpool in February 1872 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in October 1894. Advanced to Chief Stoker in early 1909, he was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in January 1912 and, by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, was serving in H.M.S. Birmingham. And in that capacity he quickly saw action, the Birmingham ramming and cutting in two the U-15 on 8 August, the first enemy submarine loss of the War, in addition to sinking two German merchantmen. Moreover, she was present at Heligoland Bight on 28 August and at Dogger Bank in January 1915. Coming ashore to an appointment in Victory II in May 1915, Hickey briefly returned to sea in the cruiser Birkenhead in April-July 1916, in which period he was present at the battle of Jutland, but he was invalided ashore suffering from shell shock in August of the same year. He died in November 1957.