Four: Seaman A. Sutherland, Hawke Battalion, Royal Naval Division, taken Prisoner of War following the Fall of Antwerp, 10 October 1914

1914 Star (A.5531. A. Sutherland, Sea. R.N.R. Hwke Bttn R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (5531A. A. Sutherland. Smn. R.N.R.; Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (4906D. A. Sutherland. Smn. R.N.R.) contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £240-280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Prisoners of War.

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Alexander Sutherland was born in Avoch, Ross-shire, on 27 January 1891, and enrolled as a Reservist into the Royal Fleet Service on 4 January 1914. Mobilised on the outbreak of the Great War, he joined the Royal Naval Division, and was posted to the Hawke Battalion on 16 September 1914. He served with the Battalion on the Western Front from 27 August 1914, and was taken prisoner of War on 10 October 1914, almost certainly caught whilst attempting to make the Dutch border following the fall of Antwerp. He was held at Doeberitz prisoner of war camp until the cessation of hostilities, arriving back at Hull on 7 January 1919. He was discharged on 17 April 1919, but continued serving in the Royal Naval Reserve at Inverness, and later at Lerwick in the Shetland Islands.