Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class G. Rayton, Royal Navy, awarded the French Medaille Militaire

1914-15 Star (269307 C.E.R.A.1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (269307 C.E.R.A.1, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (269307 George Rayton, C.E.R.A. 2Cl., H.M.S. Hecla); France, Medaille Militaire, enamelled, unnamed, good very fine (5) £250-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Ron Tuppen Collection of Naval Medals to Engine Room Officers.

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Medaille Militaire London Gazette 15 September 1916.

George Rayton was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire on 28 March 1874. An Engine Smith by occupation, he enetred the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class on 3 March 1898, being confirmed in that rank in October 1899. He was advanced to E.R.A. 3rd Class in May 1902 on Sphinx; E.R.A. 2nd Class in April 1905 at Sapphire II; and C.E.R.A. 2nd Class in June 1909 on Orion. During the Great War Rayton served on the destroyer Linnet, June 1914-February 1917 and April 1917-October 1918, as part of the Harwich Force, seeing action at the battle of Heligoland Bight, for which action he was probably awarded the Medaille Militaire. He attained the rank of C.E.R.A. 1st Class in June 1914.

With copied service papers and gazette extract