Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Stoker Petty Officer W. E. Weatherley, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (K..8704, W. E. Weatherley, L. Sto., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K.8704 W. E. Weatherley S.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.37737 W. E. Weatherley Sy. P.O. H.M.S. Effingham) very fine (4) £100-£140

William Edmund Weatherley was born at Potters Bar, Hertfordshire on 26 June 1889 and commenced his naval service as a Stoker 2nd Class on 21 September 1910. He was paid a war gratuity when serving as a Stoker Petty Officer in H.M.S. Egmont. On appointment as Supernumerary Petty Officer on 21 April 1923, he was renumbered M.37737. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in November 1925, and continued in service until invalided on 5 November 1930.