Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (294282 J. T. Cross, L. Sto., H.M.S. Blenheim) one or two edge bruises, contact marks, about very fine £20-30

John Thomas Cross was born in Cambridgeshire in April 1876 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in January 1900. Advanced to Stoker 1st Class in July 1906, he served on Ascension Island from the outbreak of hostilities until March 1917, when he returned to an appointment at Pembroke. Then in May of the same year he joined the battleship Royal Oak as an Acting Leading Stoker. Cross finished the War aboard the destroyer Sikh and was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in February 1921, shortly before he was pensioned ashore.