Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Leading Seaman S. Blewett, Royal Naval Reserve, who during the Great War was twice ‘noted’ by the Admiralty for his service aboard trawlers

British War and Victory Medals (2676C. S. Blewett. L.S. R.N.R.) VM officially re-impressed; Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (C.2676. S. Blewett, Lg. Sea. R.N.R.) good very fine (3) £60-£80

Stephen Blewett was born in Mousehole, Cornwall, in October 1881 and joined the Royal Naval Reserve at Penzance in 1901. He served during the Great War in the Penzance fishing boat PZ.459 ‘Boy Don’, and was twice ‘noted’ by the Admiralty; the first for “war services – Dardanelles Operations” and the second “on the occasion of the fire on H.M.T. Gillygate on 23.8.16”.

Blewett was awarded his Royal Naval Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in March 1919 while assigned to the shore establishment H.M.S. Dreel Castle. He continued to serve until September 1922.