Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Able Seaman H. A. Sibley, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (J.26337 Ord., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.26337 A.B., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (J.26337 A.B., H.M.S. Courageous) mounted as worn, contact marks, fine (4) £80-100

H.M.S. Courageous was a light battlecruiser, built by Elswick, launched in February 1916 and completed in January 1917. The brainchild of First Sea Lord Fisher, the Courageous, her sister ship Glorious and the related Furious were built for a proposed Baltic Sea expedition that came to nothing. In order to get funding for the 19,000 ton vessels they were described as ‘large light cruisers!’ During 1924-28 the ship was converted to an aircraft carrier. As such H.M.S. Courageous was sunk by the German submarine U.29 on the S.W. Approaches on 17 September 1939.