Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Deck Hand T. Gay, Royal Naval Reserve, who was among those lost when H.M’s trawler Repro was mined in April 1917

1914-15 Star (DA. 9126 T. Gay, D.H., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (9126 D.A. T. Gay, D.H., R.N.R.), together with a gilt and enamelled ‘H.M.T. Dorsetshire’ badge, nearly extremely fine (4) £80-100

Thomas Gay was born in Pittenweem, Fife, in February 1887, and enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve as a Deck Hand in October 1915. Appointed to H.M. Trawler Repro at Rosyth in the same month, he later served out of the Granton naval base Gunner, and he was similarly employed when the Repro was mined off Tod Head on the Scottish coast on 26 April 1917, with a loss of one officer and 12 ratings - Gay being among the latter. The son of William Gay of Colmans Wynd, Pittenweem, he was 30 years of age, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial; sold with copied research.