Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class A. A. E. Oakwell, Royal Navy, who served in H.M. Submarine H3, and was killed in action when she was mined in the Adriatic Sea, 15 July 1916

1914-15 Star (M.3934, A. A. E. Oakwell, ERA.3, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.3934 A. A. E. Oakwell. E.R.A.3 R.N.) all in somewhat damaged named card boxes of issue, with Admiralty enclosure in envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. M. A. Oakwell, 4 France Street, Blackburn’; Memorial Plaque (Alfred Arthur Ernest Oakwell) in card envelope, suspension claw rivet missing from BWM, extremely fine (4) £200-240

Alfred Arthur Ernest Oakwell served during the Great War in H.M. Submarine H3, commissioned on 3 June 1915. He was killed in action when she hit a mine in the Gulf of Cattaro, Adriatic Sea, on 15 July 1916, and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.