Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Able Seaman A. E. Brown, Royal Navy

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (A. E. Brown. A.B., H.M.S. Highflyer.); 1914-15 Star (207030, A. E. Brown, L.S. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (207030, A. E. Brown, A.B. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (207030 A. E. Brown, A.B. H.M.S. Sandhurst) generally very fine (5) £200-£240

Albert Edward Brown was born in Southampton on 7 August 1884 and enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 12 February 1903, serving in H.M.S. Highflyer during the Somaliland campaign of 1902-04. His Great War service included service in South American waters in H.M.S. Vindictive, and later in H.M.S. Sandhurst, in which ship he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 7 September 1917. Shore discharged on 26 October 1919, he was recalled for Second War service in H.M.S. Raven, a Royal Navy Air Station at Eastleigh, Hampshire, and was released, Class Z, on 13 August 1945, shortly after his 61st birthday.