Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Electrical Artificer G. H. Cooke, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (M.2708 G. H. Cooke. E.A.3., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.2708. G. H. Cooke. E.R.A.2. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.2708. G. H. Cooke. C.E.A.1 H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth) minor official correction to ship’s name on last, polished, nearly very fine (4) £80-120

Griffith Harold Cooke was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on 9 March 1899, and joined the Royal Navy on 18 November 1910, serving as an Electrician 4th Class in H.M.S. Defiance. He served during the Great War as an Electrical Artificer in H.M.S. Orion, including at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May to 1 June 1916, before being advanced Chief Electrical Artificer in H.M.S. Defiance on 9 May 1919. He transferred to H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth on 9 May 1925, and was awarded his Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in February 1926. He died in 1957.