Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Petty Officer J. G. W. Williams, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Hampshire was sunk on 5 June 1916

1914-15 Star (160895. J. G. W. Williams. P.O. 1. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (160895 J. G. W. Williams. P.O. 1. R.N.) in card boxes of issue; Memorial Plaque (Joseph George Weller Williams) in card envelope; Memorial Scroll, inscribed ‘P.O. 1 Cl. Joseph George Weller Williams H.M.S. Hampshire’, extremely fine (4) £240-£280

Joseph George Weller Williams was serving in H.M.S Hampshire, when he was killed in action when the Hampshire, conveying Field Marshal Lord Kitchener on a diplomatic mission to Russia, struck a German-mine off the Orkneys on 5 June 1916 and sank within 15 minutes with the loss of 737 lives. There were only 12 survivors. Williams is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

Sold with Borough of Croydon memorial card, King's letter; and a period cutting of Lord Kitchener in H.M.S. Hampshire.