Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Engine Room Artificer 1st Class S. L. Telford, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Shannon at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916

China 1900, no clasp (S. L. Telford, E.R.A. 3Cl., H.M.S. Barfleur.); 1914-15 Star (268520, S. L. Telford, E.R.A.1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (268520 S. L. Telford. E.R.A.1. R.N.) contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £200-£240

Samuel Lawson Telford was born at Gateshead, co. Durham, on 28 January 1874 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class on 16 July 1895. He joined H.M.S. Barfleur on 1 October 1898, serving in her until 22 January 1902, and was advanced Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class on 13 October of that year. Advanced Engine Room Artificer 1st Class on 3 August 1909, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Shannon from 220 May 1915 to 9 July 1917, and was present at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. he was invalided with Myopia of the left eye on 1 August 1917, and died in Gillingham, Kent, on 9 February 1948.

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