British Campaign and Gallantry Medals

Eight: Stoker 1st Class D. Tildesley, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (K.20012 Sto. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K.20012 Sto. 1, R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, these unnamed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (K.20012 Sto. 1, H.M.S. Hood) mounted as worn, Great War medals heavily worn; others good very fine (8) £140-180

David Tildesley was born in Stoke, Staffordshire, on 27 March 1894. A Coal Miner by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 29 August 1913. During the early part of the war he served on the battleship Agincourt, August 1914-August 1915, being advanced to Stoker 1st Class in October 1914. At the battle of Jutland, Tildesley was serving aboard the destroyer Broke. Between the wars, he was awarded the Long Service Medal when serving on the battlecruiser Hood. He was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 27 August 1940) for service along the Dutch, Belgian and French coast aboard the destroyer Whitshed. With copied service paper and gazette extracts.