Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Leading Sick Berth Attendant A. Warren, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (351009 S.B.S. 2, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (351009 2 S.B.S., R.N.), mounted as worn, a little polished, generally very fine (3) £60-80

Arthur Warren was born in Nottingham in December 1885 and entered the Royal Navy as a Probationary Sick Berth Attendant in January 1902. A Sick Berth Steward 2nd Class serving at Cape Town Hospital by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he joined the cruiser H.M.S. Challenger in May 1915 and served in her until the end of the War. He consequently shared in her honours off the East and West coasts of Africa, most notably the Cameroons campaign, the “rounding-up” of the Konigsberg in 1915, in close liaison with our monitors the Severn and Mersey, and the bombardment of Dar-es-Salaam in June of the same year. Interestingly, Warren’s service record also reveals that he went ashore for ‘Land Operations’ in the course of 1917, when the Challenger was still operating off East Africa. He was finally placed on a reduced pension in the rate of Leading Sick Berth Attendant in October 1922, but, as a result of some average character assessments, was not awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal.