British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Able Seaman F. Terrill, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (226272 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (226272 A.B., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (226272 Frederick Terrill, A.B., H.M.S. Courageous) edge bruising, contact marks, good fine (4) £60-80

Frederick Terrill was born in Portsmouth on 27 September 1887. Formerly employed as an Errand Boy, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in May 1903, being advanced to Boy 1st Class in December the same year. Whilst on the Exmouth he was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in September 1905 and to Able Seaman in August 1907. With the onset of war he was serving on the pre-dreadnought battleship Irresistible and was serving on her in the Dardanelles when she was mined and sunk on 18 March 1915. For the remainder of the war he served on Swiftsure, Europa and Galatea. Terrill served on the light battlecruiser Courageous during March 1920-May 1921 and July-August 1921. He was pensioned ashore on 30 September 1927. With copied service paper.