Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant Engineer H. J. Andrews, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (Art. Eng. H. J. Andrews. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Art. Eng. H. J. Andrews. R.N.) minor spot corrosion to both Star and VM, otherwise good very fine (3) £120-160

Provenance: John Chidzey Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2012.

Herbert James Andrews was born in Chelsea, London, on 12 January 1879 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class on 11 March 1903. He served in the battleships H.M.S. Illustrious, Ramilles, and Albermarle, and was advanced to Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class on 11 March 1906 and Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class on 11 March 1910. Posted to the battleship H.M.S. Implacable on 11 October 1911, he was promoted to Acting Artificer Engineer on 11 February 1915, and was subsequently posted to the pre-dreadnought battleship Goliath in February 1915. However, he was unable to join the ship before she sailed for the Eastern Mediterranean - a fortunate occurrence as the ship was torpedoed and sunk off Cape Helles on 15 May 1915. Appointed instead to the 2nd Class cruiser H.M.S. Hyacinth on 1 April 1915, he later joined the battleship H.M.S. Vengeance in January 1916.

Returning to the Hyacinth on 25 September 1916, he transferred to the Severn on 30 August 1917, and to the Bellerophon on 24 June 1919. Whilst serving in the survey ship Fitzroy, from December 1923 to November 1925, he was promoted to Commissioned Engineer on 1 January 1925, and then joined the battleship Malaya on 17 November 1925. He was placed on the Retired List on 12 January 1929, on reaching the age of 50, and was given the rank of Lieutenant (Engineer). He died on 23 January 1953.

Sold together with four original photographs of the recipient.