Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lieut. A. Elliott, R.N.R.), extremely fine £20-30

Andrew Elliott was born in January 1884, the youngest son of the Rev. Canon J. R. Elliott, headmaster of Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, where he was duly educated. Entering the Mercantile Marine with an appointment in the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. in 1902, he was commissioned as a Sub. Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve in September 1915, in which capacity he joined the minesweeper H.M.S. Peony and served in the Dardanelles before returning to duties in home waters.

Demobilised in February 1919, Elliott returned to sea and gained his Master’s Certificate in 1930, following which he participated in numerous Atlantic convoys during the 1939-45 War and was awarded the O.B.E. while serving as Master of the S.S. Empire Voice (London Gazette 3 January 1945, refers). He had earlier survived the loss of the S.S. Anselm to enemy aircraft in July 1941. Elliott finally ‘swallowed the anchor’ in 1951, and died in Minehead in 1972; sold with a file of research.