Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Able Seaman A. Griggs, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who died on 9 December 1916

British War and Victory Medals (L.Z.4469 A.B., R.N.V.R.); Memorial Plaque (Alma Griggs) extremely fine (3) £120-160

Able Seaman Alma Griggs, R.N.V.R., serving on the sloop H.M.S. Laburnum, accidentally drowned on 9 December 1916. His name is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. Griggs was born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire and was the husband of Alice Griggs, of The Elms, Shepperton, Middlesex.

H.M.S. Laburnum shelled the outskirts of Galway in April 1916 during the Easter Rising.

Medals and plaque in wooden glass-fronted case, 312 x 254mm. With some copied research.