Orders, Decorations and Medals

Silver Memorial Plaque, engraved, ‘In Memory of Lieut. J. S. M. Uffen, R.N., Monitor 18, 14th April 1917’, 83mm. dia., hallmarks for London 1928, pierced in four places for attachment, good condition £40-60

Joseph Coley Moulton Uffen was born on 15 January 1878. Entering the Royal Navy, he was passed as a Gunner on 2 June 1903. In the years prior to the Great War he was consistently rated as zealous and hardworking, though was deemed to be handicapped through insufficient education. With the onset of war he was serving as Gunner aboard the torpedo gun-boat Gossamer. In August 1915 he transferred to the Victory and thence the monitor M.18. Serving on board the ship off Salonika, he was accidentally killed on 14 April 1917, due to the premature explosion of a bomb whilst practising bomb-throwing. Buried initially in the English Army New Cemetery, Stavros, he was later re-interred at the Mikka British Cemetery, Kalamaria. He was the husband of Charlotte W. Uffen of 33 Lisson Grove, Mutley, Plymouth. With copied service paper.