Four: Shipwright H. E. Green, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (H. E. Green, Car: Cr: H.M.S. Thetis); British War and Victory Medals (341787 H. E. Green. Shpt. 1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (341787. H. E. Green, Shpt. 1Cl. H.M.S. Minerva.) mounted for display, good very fine (4) £160-£200

Herbert Gdward Green was born at Purbrook, Hampshire, on 21 January 1877, and was a carpenter by trade when he joined the Royal Navy as Carpenter’s Crew on 22 November 1897. He served aboard H.M.S. Thetis from February 1898 to June 1901, including service in South Africa during the Boer War. He advanced to Leading Carpenter’s Crew on 1 December 1901; Shipwright, 14 January 1904; Leading Shipwright, 1 January 1906; Shipwright 2nd Class, 1 December 1912; Shipwright 1st Class, 1 January 1913. He served during the Great War aboard the cruiser Minerva which took part in the Gallipoli campaign in support of the landings at Cape Helles and Suvla Bay, and was afterwards deployed on the China Station in 1916, and then to the Indian Ocean and Red Sea in 1917. Green received his L.S. & G.C. medal aboard Minerva in February 1915 and left the ship on 31 December 1917. He was Shore Demobilised on 18 December 1919.

Sold with copied record of service.