Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Petty Officer 1st Class C. H. Chester, Royal Navy

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (C. H. Chester, Lg. Sea., H.M.S. Harrier.); 1914-15 Star (167514. C. H. Chester. P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (167514 C. H. Chester. P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (167514 C. H. Chester, P.O. 1Cl, H.M.S. Cornwall.) contact marks to first and last, generally very fine (5) £160-£200

Cecil Horace Chester was born in Swindon, Wiltshire. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in June 1892, and advanced to Able Seaman in July 1895, and to Leading Seaman in June 1898. Chester served with H.M.S. Harrier, March 1901 - April 1904. He advanced to Petty Officer 1st Class in July 1906, and his service during the Great War included with the battleship H.M.S. Caesar, September 1913 - April 1918.