Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Leading Stoker W. J. Weeks, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (237447 L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (237447 L.S., R.N.); Italy, Messina Earthquake Medal, 1908, the edge inscribed ‘W. Weeks, 237447 H. M. S. Exmouth’, in fitted case of issue; together with memorial plaque (Walter James Weeks); Great War illuminated memorial scroll and named bestowal document for Messina Medal, this torn in three, generally good very fine (5) £120-150

Leading Seaman Walter James Weeks was accidentally drowned on 9 November 1917 whilst serving aboard H. M. S. Nairana. His name is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.