Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: 2nd Class Sick Berth Steward J. Hubble, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (351089 S.B.S.2, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (351089); Royal Navy L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (351089 2nd S.B.S., H.M.S. Research), mounted as worn, very fine (4) £60-£80

James Hubble was born in Leicester on 5 August 1884. He enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Probationary Sick Berth Attendant on 2 September 1902, becoming a 2nd Class Sick Berth Steward in 1910. During the first two years of the war he served aboard the pre-dreadnaught battleship Hindustan and for the latter two, was based at Portland Hospital, gaining his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1917 whilst on the Portland Depot Ship Research. He was discharged with a pension in 1924.