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

A group of five medals to Stoker Petty Officer A. J. Ade, Royal Navy, who was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal at Gallipoli.

1914-15 Star (K.14283 Act. L. Sto., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K.14283 S.P.O. R.N.) the Victory Medal erased; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (S.P.O. R.F.R.); London Fire Brigade Good Service Medal (Fireman A. J. Ade, C.G.M.) very fine (5) £250-300

Conspicuous Gallantry Medal London Gazette 15 May, 1916, for an action at Gallipoli: ‘On August 9th 1915, when his picket boat was struck by a shrapnel shell and steam pipe perforated, Stoker Ade, though the engine room was full of steam, went down and shut off steam and brought up the leading stoker who was severely wounded and scalded.’

Stoker Ade was serving at Gallipoli aboard H.M.S. Cornwalis which supplied about seventy men as beach party and boats’ crew for both Suvla and Anzac. Gunnery-Lieutenant Minchin was in charge of two trawlers engaged in putting troops ashore and evacuating wounded, and during these operations one of our picket-boats at Anzac got a shell in her engine-room which broke the main steam pipe, with the result that an excellent leading stoker, J. B. Calder, was so badly scalded that he died. All in the boat behaved with the greatest coolness, and Stoker Ade went down into the steam-filled engine-room and rescued Calder. For this he was promoted leading stoker, and has since received a well-deserved C.G.M.

Ade was promoted Ledaing Stoker on 10 August 1915, and served in Cornwallis until 2 May 1916. He served in H.M.S. Osiris from May 1916 to January 1918, as part of the 13th Destroyer Flotilla on convoy duty in the North Sea. He was also awarded the French Medaille Militaire on 17 March 1919.