Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private T. Sales, Royal Marine Light Infantry, killed in action serving aboard H.M.S. Lion at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916

1914-15 Star (Ply. 14074 Pte., R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Ply. 14074 Pte., R.M.L.I.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Sales) slight edge bruising, nearly extremely fine (4) £400-460

Private Thomas Sales, R.M.L.I. was killed in action when serving aboard the battlecruiser, H.M.S. Lion - Admiral Sir David Beatty’s flagship at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916.

Another casualty on board the ship was Major F. J. W. Harvey, R.M.L.I., who was awarded the Victoria Cross - Harvey, although mortally wounded and almost the only survivor after the explosion of an enemy heavy calibre shell in ‘Q’ turret, ordered the magazines to be flooded. By this action he saved the ship.