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21 May 2020

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№ 244

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21 May 2020

Hammer Price:
£280

Three: Able Seaman Harry Browning, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Hampshire struck a mine and sank off the Orkneys, 5 June 1916

1914-15 Star (J.15337. H. Browning, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.15337 H. Browning. A.B. R.N.) extremely fine (3) £140-£180

Harry Browning was born at Horsham, Sussex, on 30 November 1895. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 18 January 1912, and joined H.M.S. Hampshire as a Boy 1st Class on 3 January 1913, advancing to Ordinary Seaman in November 1913 and to Able Seaman in November 1914. 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. He is buried in Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery, Orkney.

Sold with copied record of service two Post Card photographs of the battleship, another possibly of the recipient, and some modern photographs of his gravestone.