Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Stoker Petty Officer H. A. Dorey, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (278806, J. A. Dorey, S.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (278806 J. A. Dorey. S.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (278806. J. A. Dorey. Sto. P.O. H.M.S. Cochrane.) mounted as worn, very fine (4) £100-£140

John Alfred Dorey was born in Portsmouth on 21 December 1875 and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 20 January 1895. Advanced Stoker Petty Officer on 1 July 1906, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 16 January 1910 and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Cochrane from the outbreak of hostilities to 25 September 1916. He was demobilised on 27 October 1919.