Four: Commander L. W. Pooley, Royal Naval Reserve and Mercantile Marine

Transport 1899-1902, 1 clasp, S. Africa 1899-1902 (L. W. Pooley); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Commr. L. W. Pooley. R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Commr. L. W. Pooley. R.N.R.) some staining, otherwise good very fine (4) £900-£1,200

Llewellyn Willoughby Pooley was born on 6 July 1871 in Bootle, Lancashire. He served as Second Officer in S.S. Ortona during the Boer War and was commissioned into the Royal Naval Reserve on 2 January 1901. Promoted Lieutenant on 5 December 1904, and Lieutenant-Commander on 13 January 1912, he served during the Great War, and was placed on the retired list with the rank of Commander on 31 March 1919.

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