Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant-Commander R. F. Woods, Royal Naval Reserve

1914-15 Star (Lieut. R. F. Woods. R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Commr. R. F. Woods. R.N.R.); Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarked London 1918; Greece, Kingdom, Order of George I, Bronze Merit Cross, this last mounted with the group to represent his entitlement to an officer’s badge of the Order, nearly extremely fine (5) £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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R.N.R. Decoration awarded on 14 May 1919.

Order of George I, Officer, conferred by H.M. King of the Hellenes, London Gazette 11 April 1919: awarded for services to Greece by facilitating the work of Greek officials who are in charge of commercial affairs.

Richard Frederick Woods was born at Brentwood, Essex, on 28 September 1880, and was appointed Midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve on 23 March 1898; Acting Sub-Lieutenant, 4 April 1904; Sub-Lieutenant, 12 December 1906; Lieutenant, 18 October 1909; Lieutenant-Commander, 18 October 1917; Commander (Retired) 4 April 1921. He was placed on the Retired List (medically unfit) from 3 October 1919, and died in Greece on 30 November 1923 at the Hospital Syra, Grecian Archipelago.