Three: Leading Telegraphist R. S. J. Hathaway, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (J. 36192 R. S. J. Hathaway. L. Tel. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J 36192 R. S. J. Hathaway. L. Tel. H.M.S. President.) contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £60-£80

Rowland Samuel James Hathaway was born in Oxford in April 1899 and enlisted into the Royal Navy in March 1915 as a Boy Second Class. He saw operational service during the Great War aboard the depot ship H.M.S. Maidstone and the dreadnought battleship H.M.S. Agincourt. Immediately following the war, he served in Russia aboard the pre-dreadnought battleship H.M.S. Glory. Hathaway was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in May 1932 while serving at the Admiralty in Whitehall, having attained the rate of Leading Telegraphist (Shore Wireless Service). He was demobilised with a pension in April 1939.