Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Commander M. V. Keogh, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (Mid., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals, fine and better (7) £120-160

Maurice Victor Keogh was born on 26 March 1897, the son of Fleet Surgeon J. A. Keogh, R.N., of Southsea. He entered a Naval Training Establishment in January 1910 and was posted to the Grafton as a Midshipman in August 1914. He served on the battleship Marlborough, December 1914-June 1916, being present at the battle of Jutland - the ship being hit by a torpedo. He was promoted to Lieutenant in May 1918. Serving in the Royal Navy in the inter-war years and into the Second World War, he was placed on the Retired List with the rank of Commander on 26 March 1942. Continuing to serve, he was found guilty by a disciplinary court in September 1942, of being drunk on shore. As a result of this he was severely reprimanded and dismissed from the Baldur. He returned to the Retired List on 9 December 1946. Sold with copied service papers.