Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Chief Yeoman of Signals H. W. Cummings, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (193969 C.Y.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (193969 C.Y.S., R.N.); Italy, Messina Earthquake Medal 1908, good very fine (4) £150-200

Confirmed in the book Angels in Blue Jackets, by J.W. Wilson and R. Perkins as serving aboard H.M.S. Exmouth as a Yeoman Signaller at the time of the Messina earthquake; and as being one of the men of that ship who was landed to participate in the rescue operations. Sold with copied service papers.