Six: Petty Officer G. F. Ryder, Royal Navy

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (234550 G. F. Ryder. A.B. H.M.S. Philomel:); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (234550 G. F. Ryder. A.B. H.M.S. Philomel.); 1914-15 Star (234550, G. F. Ryder, L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (234550 G. F. Ryder. P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (234550. G. F. Ryder, P.O. H.M.S. Columbine.), contact marks, nearly very fine (6) £240-£280

George Frederick Ryder was born in Gosport, Hampshire, on 29 May 1888 and entered naval service on 14 August 1905, serving in H.M.S. Philomel between July 1909 and September 1911. He spent the bulk of the Great War serving in Vernon, Neptune and Woolwich. He was shore-pensioned from Vernon in 1928, having been awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in June 1921.