Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Leading Telegraphist E. R. Hookway, Royal Navy

British War Medal 1914-20 (J.80588 E. R. Hookway. B. Tel. R.N.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (J.80588 E. R. Hookway. O. Tel. R.N.) note difference in rate; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J.80588 E. R. Hookway. L. Tel. H.M.S. Codrington.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (3) £70-£90

Edward Reginald Hookway was born in Plymouth, Devon, on 28 December 1901 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 2 November 1917. He served initially in H.M.S. Impregnable, before transferring to H.M.S. Ganges on 16 February 1918, and was appointed Boy Telegraphist on 9 April of that year. Advanced Ordinary Telegraphist on 28 December 1919, and Leading Telegraphist on 28 September 1920, he transferred to the destroyer H.M.S. Codrington on 1 October 1932, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 2 April 1935. He served in various shore-based establishments during the Second World War, and was shore pensioned on 29 October 1941.

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