Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Engineer Rear-Admiral E. J. O’B. Croker, C.B.E., Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (J. Eng. Lt. E. O. B. Croker, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Eng. Lt. Cr. E. J. O’B. Croker. R.N.); Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these last four unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, together with portrait photograph, good very fine (7) £300-400

C.B.E. (Military) London Gazette 11 May 1937 - Coronation Honours.

Edward James O’Brien Croker was born on 3 July 1881, eldest son of Edward James O’Brien Croker and Henrietta Emily Odium, of Dublin. He was educated privately and at the Royal Naval Engineering College, Devonport, and joined the Royal Navy in 1898, becoming Engineer Sub-Lieutenant in 1903. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Botha, in the Grand Fleet and the Dover Patrol. Between 1932 and 1937 he was Superintendent R.N. Torpedo Factory, Greenock, and R.N. Torpedo Works, Alexandria, Dumbarton. Appointed A.D.C. to the King in 1934, and promoted Engineer Rear-Admiral in 1935, he retired in 1937 and was awarded the C.B.E. in the Coronation Honours List of that year. He was recalled for special service in North America 1940-44. Engineer Rear-Admiral Croker died on 8 March 1955.

For related Croker family medals see Lots 4, 163, 228, 280 and 424.