Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Victory Medal awarded to Stoker 1st Class F. G. Stubbington, Royal Navy, who was interned in Denmark after the submarine E13 ran aground off the German coast in August 1915 and was attacked by a German torpedo boat

Victory Medal 1914-19 (304560 F. G. Stubbington. Sto. 1. R.N.) very fine £50-£70

Francis George Stubbington was born at Soberton, Hampshire, on 20 August 1883, and was a miller when he joined the Royal Navy on 27 July 1903. He transferred to the submarine service in early 1913, and was serving aboard submarine E13 when she ran aground on the sandbanks of Saltholm just outside Copenhagen on the night of 18/19 August 1915. The next morning she was attacked by German torpedo boat destroyers which caused the loss of 15 petty officers and men before the remainder abandoned ship and spent the remainder of the war interned in Denmark. Stubbington was repatriated in December 1918 and received his Naval L.S. & G.C. medal in February 1919. Also entitled to 1914-15 Star and British War Medal.

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