Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Chief Electrical Artificer F. J. Keeling, Royal Navy, Mentioned in Despatches for his services in the Baltic against the Bolsheviks

1914-15 Star (M.6359. F. J. Keeling, E.A.4., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (M.6359 F. J. Keeling. E.A.3. R.N.); Jubilee 1935 (M.6359 F. J. Keeling C.E.A.) contemporarily engraved naming; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.6359 F. J. Keeling. E.A.1. H.M.S. Nelson) light pitting to BWM with scratch to obverse field, nearly very fine (5) £160-200

M.I.D. London Gazette 5 March 1920.

Frederick James Kelling was born in Crewe, Cheshire, on 15 April 1892, and joined the Royal Navy as an Electrical Artificer 4th Class on 19 August 1913. Posted to H.M.S. Dreadnought on 18 September 1913, he served in her throughout the Great War, being advanced to Electrical Artificer 3rd Class on 18 August 1916, before transferring to the aircraft-carrier H.M.S. Vindictive on 19 September 1918. He served in her during operations in the Baltic against the Bolsheviks, during which her aircraft made numerous attacks on the naval base at Kronstadt, and for which he was Mentioned in Despatches. He was advanced to Chief Electrical Artificer on 1 April 1928, whilst serving in H.M.S. Nelson, and was awarded his Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, together with a gratuity, on 7 October 1928.

Sold together with various postcard photographs of H.M.S. London, including a group photograph.