Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Petty Officer Cook E. Bick, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (347853, E. Bick, L.Ck. Mte., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (347853 E. Bick. L.Ck. Mte. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (347853 E. Bick. P.O. Ck. H.M.S. Impregnable) light contact marks and minor edge bruise to last, nearly very fine (4) £100-£140

Edwin Bick was born at Bridgenorth, Staffordshire, on 15 December 1888 and commenced his naval service as a Probationer 2nd Cook’s Mate on 26 September 1907, in H.M.S. Vivid I. His medals for service in the Great War were sent to H.M.S. Revenge. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1922, and was shore pensioned in September 1929, but was re-mobilised in August 1939 as a Pensioned Chief Petty Officer Cook.