Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Officers’ Steward 2nd Class E. Addley, Royal Navy, was killed in action when H.M.S. Pathfinder was torpedoed and sunk by U-21, 5 September 1914, with the loss of all but 11 hands; the first ship ever to be sunk by a self-propelled torpedo fired from a submarine

1914-15 Star (L. 3401, E. Addley, O.S. 2. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (L.3401 E. Addley. O.S. 2. R.N.) nearly extremely fine (3) £140-180

Edward Dickers Addley was born in Folkestone, Kent, on 23 August 1888, and joined the Royal Navy in January 1912, serving first on H.M.S. London. He transferred to the light cruiser H.M.S. Pathfinder, as Officers’ Steward Class II, on 6 November 1913 and was killed in action when Pathfinder was torpedoed and sunk by U-21, commanded by Kapitänleutenant Otto Hersing, the ‘Destroyer of Battleships’, on 5 September 1914, the first ship sunk by a self-propelled torpedo fired from a submarine. His name is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, the Dover Town Memorial and the Congregational Church War Memorial Tablet, Dover. Of the ship’s compliment of 270, only 11 survived.