Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Stoker 1st Class J. Phillips, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (S.S. 105045 Sto. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (SS. 105045 Sto. 1, R.N.), in their card boxes of issue, extremely fine (3) £80-100

Sold with a quantity of related items, including Great War period photographs (3), a pair of wrist watches, patriotic sewing kit and handkerchief, a locket and crucifix, and a Merchant Navy 1939-45 War lapel badge.

Joseph Phillips was born in Southampton in April 1889 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in May 1907. Transferring to the Royal Fleet Reserve in May 1912, he was recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in the rank of Stoker 1st Class, and served in the Cape flagship H.M.S. Hyacinth until August 1917, in which period she intercepted the German merchantman Rubens in May 1915 and sank the S.S. Tabora off Dar-es-Salaam in March 1916. Phillips next removed to the cruiser Kent, came ashore again in June 1918, and ended the War at the Dover Auxiliary Patrol base Attentive II. He was demobilised in June 1921.