Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Leading Seaman A. E. Wright, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (J. 22192 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J. 22192 A.B., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; War Medal 1939-45, together with a R.A.O.B. badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse named and dated May 1923, heavily lacquered, otherwise generally very fine (8) £40-60

Albert Edwin Wright was born in Tenbury in July 1895 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1913. An Ordinary Seaman serving aboard the battleship H.M.S. Ajax by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he came ashore to an appointment in Vivid I in May 1915 and removed to the cruiser Duke of Edinburgh in September of the latter year. He was subsequently present at Jutland, when the Duke of Edinburgh was the only ship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron to survive the battle. Having then returned to another shore appointment in August 1918, he remained in the service after the War and transferred to submarines in November 1926. His service record further confirms his entitlement to the L.S. & G.C.