Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family group:

Four: Leading Seaman A. S. Lewis, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (J.15908 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.15908 A.B., R.N.) mounted as worn; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (J.15908 (Po.B.16579) L.S., R.F.R.) this last in card box of issue

Seven: Petty Officer A. E. Lewis, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, copy clasp, France and Germany; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (KX.92364 Ch.B.34770 POM(E) R.F.R.); U.S.S.R., Great Patriotic War 40th Anniversary Medal 1945-85, unnamed, mounted as worn, very fine and better (lot) £200-240

Medals to father and son:

Alfred Stephen Lewis was born in Wingham, Kent on 23 September 1896. A former Greenwich School Boy, living at 43 Hardwick Road, Maxton, Dover, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 22 February 1912 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in June the same year. Serving on the battlecruiser Indomitable, February 1913-January 1915, he was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in March 1914 and Able Seaman in November 1914. After service on Actaeon, January-March 1915, he served on the battleship Hercules, March 1915-September 1916, seeing action at the battle of Jutland. He then transferred to the submarine service, being based on Dolphin, Bonaventure and Titania for the remainder of the war. Lewis was advanced being Shore Expired on 22 September 1926. Immediately enrolling into the R.F.R. he resumed his rank of Leading Seaman and continued to service in the submarine service, being mainly based at Dolphin. He was discharged from the R.F.R. on 22 September 1936 and was awarded the R.F.R. gratuity of £100.

Medals to A. S. Lewis with original Certificate of Service, in envelope; Gunnery and Torpedo History Sheet; Royal Hospital School, Greenwich ‘A Farewell Word’ booklet, signed ‘A. S. Lewis, 21.2.12’; H.M.A. Submarines Christmas Card 1920; postcards (5) - one addressed to A. S. Lewis at Gosport from his mother.

Medals to A. E. Lewis with two letters from The Royal Navy Submarine Museum to Mr A. E. Lewis, dated October and November 1992 - thanking him for his letter and for various submarine service related photographs re. his father - with envelopes, addressed to ‘Mr A. E. Lewis, 17 Fordwich Place, Sandwich, Kent.

Together with a ‘Rolls Razor’ kit; unofficial Jubilee 1935 medal; coins (5); cufflinks (3); ‘Silver Leaves’ Card, from Durban, Natal; The Reign of King George V cigarette cards in album; Review of the Fleet at Spithead 1953, programme; H.M.S. Brilliant Christmas Card; photographs (50).

All contained in a wooden chest, 305 x 205 x 150mm., and bearing the name plate, ‘A. E. Lewis’.