Auction Catalogue

12 November 2020

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 214

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12 November 2020

Hammer Price:
£130

Four: Mechanist W. G. Brooks, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (309051, W. G. Brooks. Act. Mech., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (309051 W. G. Brooks. Mech. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd type, fixed suspension (309051. W. J. Brooks, Mechn. H.M.S. Cairo.), this last officially corrected, a little polished, nearly very fine (4) £60-£80

William George Brooks was born in Pembroke on 27 September 1887, entering naval service on 13 October 1905 as a Stoker 2nd Class. He was a Stoker Petty Officer in H.M.S. Scintel in 1914, serving in her and Bellophron, Vivid II, Cairo and other ships during the Great War.