Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Stoker Petty Officer W. R. Hanks, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (288570 S.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (288570 S.P.O., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st type (288570 S.P.O., H.M.S. Tamarisk) good very fine (4) £120-160

William Richard Hanks was born in Bristol in December 1879 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in May 1898. Advanced to Stoker Petty Officer in March 1910, he was serving aboard the destroyer depot ship H.M.S. Blake on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, and removed to a new appointment in the destroyer Comet in May 1915, in which capacity he remained actively employed until brief service in another destroyer, the Rattlesnake, in the summer of 1918. His final wartime appointment was in the Tamarisk, a Q-Ship (Q. 11) of 1,250 tons, converted from an Aubrieta type sloop. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in January 1919, he was pensioned ashore in May 1920; sold with copied service record.