Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Petty Officer G. Hallett, Royal Navy - who served on H.M. Ships Audacious and Queen Elizabeth

1914-15 Star (182261 P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (182261 C.P.O., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (182261 P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. Audacious) mounted for wear, good very fine (4) £120-160

George Hallett was born in Poole, Dorset on 13 October 1878. A Farm Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 6 November 1894 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in August 1895. He was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in October 1896 when on H.M.S. Alexandra; to Able Seaman in October 1898 when on H.M.S. Revenge; Leading Seaman in October 1902 when on H.M.S. Boscawen; Petty Officer 2nd Class in October 1903 when on H.M.S. Calliope and Petty Officer 1st Class in June 1906 when on H.M.S. Vulcan. From October 1913 he served on the battleship H.M.S. Audacious and was awarded the L.S. & G.C. in April 1914. He was aboard her when she was mined and sunk off Tory Island, 27 October 1914 - the loss of the ship remained a secret for the duration of the war. He then served on the battleship H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, December 1914-June 1919. The ship seeing action in the attempts to force the Dardanelles. As the Gallipoli campaign bogged down and losses in ships and men mounted, the Queen Elizabeth, one of the most modern and effective battleships in the fleet, was withdrawn from that theatre and sailed for home. Being refitted she missed the fleet action at Jutland. She was later selected as Sir David Beatty’s flagship when he took command of the Grand Fleet in November 1916. Hallett was demobilised in June 1919.

With copied service papers and other research in a folder.