Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Chief Motor Mechanic P. W. Deacon, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

1914-15 Star (E-MB-264 M.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (M.B.264 C.M.M., R.N.V.R.); Royal Naval Auxiliary Service L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (P.W. Deacon) mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £160-200

Percy William Deacon was born on 28 September 1894. Employed as a Yacht Hand, he joined the R.N.V.R. as a Motor Boatman on 19 January 1915. Based at H.M.S. President, he served in the Thames Estuary/South coast on What Next, January-March 1915; Puffin, March-July 1915 and Pleione, July-September 1915. He then served on Actaeon, Victory II, Vernon, Fisgard and Victory II before transferring to Egmont, the naval base at Malta, in January 1916. Also serving with the R.N.R. at Port Said. Whilst there he was promoted to Chief Motor Mechanic in April 1916. He returned to England in June 1918, being posted to Hermione - the torpedo school at Southampton. Deacon was demobilized on 12 March 1919. With copied service paper and other research.