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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (292707 Ernest Davey, Ldg. Sto., H.M.S. Exmouth) minor official correction to rank, good very fine £20-30

Ernest Davey was born at Newton Abbot, Devon in August 1879 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in July 1899. A Leading Stoker aboard the battleship H.M.S. Exmouth at the time of the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he served in the same ship until early 1917 and was consequently present in operations off the Belgian coast in 1914 and in the Dardanelles in the following year. Coming ashore to Vivid II in the rate of Stoker Petty Officer in March 1917, Davey returned to sea in the P49 in the following June and was still serving in her at the time of the Armistice. He had been awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal back in July 1914 and was pensioned ashore in July 1921.