Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Commander P. V. Kilgour, Royal Navy

China 1900, no clasp (Midsn. P. V. Kilgour, R.N. H.M.S. Bonaventure) minor official correction to ‘N’ of ‘R.N.’; 1914-15 Star (Lt. Commr. P. V. Kilgour. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Commr. P. V. Kilgour. R.N.); Defence Medal; mounted as worn together with companion set of five miniature dress medals, the B.W.M. with five clasps, Tsingtau, Dardanelles, Cameroons, Mediterranean 1917, Mediterranean 1918, good very fine (10) £500-600

Philip Vere Kilgour was born at Madura, Madras Presidency, on 12 October 1883. He joined the Royal Navy in 1897 and passed out of Britannia as Midshipman on 15 June 1899, joining Bonaventure for service in China during the Boxer rebellion. He served with the Channel, Home and Mediterranean fleets before sailing for China as First Lieutenant aboard Triumph in March 1914. He was present at the siege of Tsingtau with the Japanese and at the Dardanelles, when Triumph was sunk by the first German torpedo to be fired by a German submarine in the Mediterranean. He afterwards saw service in Astraea and on shore at Duala, Cameroons, from June 1915 to June 1916, and was successively in command, on commissioning, of Lupin and Hollyhock until December 1918. From December 1918 to February 1921 he was executive officer of Tamar, Depot ship at Hong Kong. In 1922 he joined the Coastguard service and became inspector for the North of Scotland area. He was transferred to Northern Ireland in 1929 and served there until his retirement in 1946, as inspector of the Northern Ireland division. Commander Kilgour died on 13 August 1960.