Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Three: Engineman E. S. Simmons, Royal Naval Reserve - killed aboard H.M. Drifter Michaelmas Daisy in the Adriatic, 26 November 1916

1914-15 Star (ES. 4134 Engn., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (4134 E.S. Engn., R.N.R.) good very fine and better (3) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Donald G. Mellen Collection.

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Engineman Ernest Stanley Simmons, R.N.R., aboard H.M. Drifter Michaelmas Daisy was killed by a mine explosion in the Adriatic, 26 November 1916, aged 21 years. His name is commemorated on the Chatham Memorial. He was the son of J. W. Simmons, Skipper, late of the Dover Patrol, and the late Mrs Simmons, of Lowestoft.