Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Stoker 1st Class G. W. W. Othen, Royal Navy, who died on 1 November 1918

1914-15 Star (K.24160 Sto. 1 R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K.24160 Sto. 1 R.N.); Memorial Plaque (George William Warren Othen) nearly extremely fine (4) £100-140

George William Warren Othen was born in Farnham, Surrey on 1 February 1897. A Gardener by occupation, he joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 6 February 1915. He served on the pre-dreadnought battleship Commonwealth November 1915-August 1917, being advanced to Stoker 1st Class in January 1916. Later in the war he served on the patrol boat P-71 based at H.M.S. Idaho - the auxiliary patrol base at Milford Haven. He joined her on 7 May 1918 but contracted double pneumonia and died on 1 November 1918. With copied service paper and service notes.