Orders, Decorations and Medals

1914 Star (13033 Pte. F. Cheeseman, 4/R. Fus.); 1914-15 Star (K.4535 D. J. Lakey, L. Sto., R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (52125 Pte. F. E. R. Andrews, R. Fus.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (202643 Pte. V. Russell, R. War. R.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (K.58028 F. Callard, Sto.1, H.M.S. Eagle); Belgium, War Commemorative Medal 1914-18; Germany, Third Reich, Iron Cross 1939, 2nd Class; German Defences Medal, generally very fine and better (10) £140-180

Private F. Cheeseman, 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 13 August 1914. He was captured by the Germans on 23 August 1914 in the first major engagement of the war. The 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers were awarded two Victoria Crosses (Dease - K.I.A., and Godley - P.O.W.) for this action. Sold with copied m.i.c. and war diary extracts.

K.58028 Leading Stoker Francis Callard, Royal Navy, was killed in action on 12 November 1942 when the depot ship Hecla was torpedoed by a German submarine west of the Straits of Gibraltar. The ship sank with the loss of 13 officers and 266 ratings. Francis Callard, aged 47 at the time of his death, was the son of William George and Mary Ann Callard of Ford, Plymouth. His name is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.