Auction Catalogue

16 April 2020

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 394

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16 April 2020

Hammer Price:
£110

Four: Leading Signaller S. R. Cole, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (223020, S. R. Cole, L. Sig., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (223020 S. R. Cole. L. Sig. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (223020. S. R. Cole, A.B. H.M.S. Impregnable.) minor edge bruise to VM, very fine (4) £80-£120

Samuel Robert Cole, an Errand Boy from Kensington, London, was born on 23 October 1886, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 14 November 1903. His Great War service including patrolling the Caribbean in H.M.S. Essex. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 19 January 1921, and was invalided from the service from the R.N. Hospital Plymouth on 5 October 1921.