Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Petty Officer H. J. Lee, Royal Navy

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (A.B., H.M.S. Highflyer); 1914-15 Star (191728 P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (191728 P.O., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (191728 P.O., H.M.S. Hecla) first with edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine; others good very fine and better (5)
£180-220

Harry James Lee was born in Roehampton, Surrey, on 1 October 1881. A Porter by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 21 January 1897, being advanced to Boy 1st Class in October the same year. He was promoted to Ordinary Seaman when on Galatea in October 1899, Able Seaman when on Magdala in June 1901, and Leading Seaman when on St. George in May 1911. At the beginning of the war he was on the Cadmus, being advanced to Petty Officer in August 1914. During the war he was on Pembroke I and Calypso and was pensioned ashore from the Hecla in December 1919. With copied service paper.