Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Petty Officer 1st Class H. W. Tilley, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (135749 P.O. 1st Cl., H.M.S. Redbreast); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (P.O. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Redbreast); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (P.O. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Excellent) mounted for wear, some edge bruising and contact marks, about very fine (3) £240-280

Ex Douglas-Morris Collection, B.D.W. 12 February 1997.

83 Q.S.A. medals and 76 A.G.S. medals to this ship.

Henry Tilley was born on 5 January 1870 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Impregnable on 11 December 1885 when aged 16 years. He served in South Africa and Somaliland whilst aboard Redbreast and was pensioned ashore on 28 February 1910 having completed his 20 year adult service engagement. He was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in 1905 whilst serving aboard H.M.S. Excellent. He volunteered for war service in August 1914 and joined H.M.S. Halcyon (2 August), Cyclops (September 1914), Zaria an M.F.A.Vessel (January 1915), and Victory I on 11 April 1917 where he served until demobilised on 1 May 1919. Sold with copied research.