Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Able Seaman E. Lightfoot, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

1914-15 Star (T.3-154 A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (T.3-154 A.B., R.N.) nearly extremely fine (3)
£40-60

Frederick Lightfoot was born on 1 April 1893. A Miner by occupation, he enrolled into the Tyneside Division R.N.V.R. on 28 March 1912. He served for most of the Great War aboard the battleship H.M.S. Agincourt, firstly as an Ordinary Seaman, and from April 1915 as an Able Seaman. He was on the battleship at the battle of Jutland, 31 May/1 June 1916 when the ship fired its fourteen 12” guns to good effect. Able Seaman Lightfoot was discharged on 24 February 1919. With copied service paper.