Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal H. V. Trodd, Royal Marines Light Infantry, who was killed when H.M.S. Hampshire struck a mine and was sunk, 5 June 1916

British War and Victory Medals (Po.15092 Cpl., R.M.L.I.) extremely fine (2) £120-160

Corporal Henry Vincent Trodd, R.M.L.I., was killed when the cruiser H.M.S. Hampshire was mined and sunk on 5 June 1916. The ship was en route to Russia carrying the Secretary of State for War, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener when she struck a mine 1.5 miles off the Brough of Birsey, Orkney Islands. Kitchener and all his staff perished and of the 600 plus men on board only 12 survived. His name is commemorated in the Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery.