Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (184859. F. Gill, P.O. 1CL. H.M.S. Redbreast) nearly extremely fine £100-140

Francis Gill was born at Thurlstone, Devon, on 21 September 1877. He joined the Navy on 16 July 1895, and served aboard Redbreast from March 1908 to March 1910, including arms traffic operations in the Persian Gulf. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal in January 1911. During the Great War he served aboard the newly commissioned battleship Benbow from 7 October 1914 until 30 June 1915, and thereafter he is on the books of Vivid I and Vivid II for the remainder of the war, being demobilized on 22 April 1920.