Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Four: Police Constable Thomas Knight, Metropolitan Police and Royal Navy, killed in the battle of the Coronel in November 1914

1914-15 Star (307737 L. Sto. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (307737 L. Sto. R.N.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C.) extremely fine (4) £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of R.W. Gould, MBE.

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Thomas Knight joined the Metropolitan Police on 12 April 1909 as a Constable in “P” Division. He was one of the 398 naval reservists called up from the Met in August 1914 on the outbreak of hostilities. He was present aboard H.M.S. Good Hope at the battle of Coronel, off the coast of Chile, on 1 November 1914. At 7.53 p.m. the ship, on fire in several places and with her main armament destroyed, blew up killing Admiral Cradock and her crew of some 900 officers and men.