Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Stoker 1st Class I. Davies, Royal Navy, killed in action when H.M.S. Hawke was sunk by the German submarine U-9, 15 October 1914

1914-15 Star (SS.101591 Sto.I, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (S.S.101591, Sto.1, R.N.); Memorial Plaque (Isaac Davies), in card envelope, extremely fine (4) £260-300

Isaac Davies joined the Royal Navy on 11 November 1905. Serving on H.M.S. Hawke, he was killed in action on 15 October 1914, when the cruiser was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-9. Nearly 500 officers and men were lost in the tragedy. His name is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.

Sold with a handwritten ‘Log of H.M.S. Astraea on the China Station 1906-1908’ in which he gives details of the ship’s progress from Chatham to the Far East and back again. Also with an original photograph of the recipient, damaged card box for the 1914-15 Star and repaired slip that accompanied the Memorial Plaque.