British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Stoker J. W. Greenaway, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (142475 J. W. Greenaway, Ch. Sto., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (142475 J. W. Greenaway, Ch. Sto., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (J. W. Greenaway, Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Aboukir), together with related Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered, ‘R.N. 26830’, the first three in their original card boxes of issue, extremely fine (4) £100-120

John William Greenaway was born in Chichester in January 1869 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in September 1887. Having then been awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in 1904, he was pensioned ashore as a Chief Stoker in October 1909, when he enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve. Recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he held an appointment in Europa II in the Dardanelles from August to December 1915, and on returning to the U.K. took up employment at the Portsmouth training establishment Fisgard, from which establishment he was invalided as a consequence of illness in June 1918.