Auction Catalogue

17 August 2021

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 337

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17 August 2021

Hammer Price:
£140

Four: Chief Stoker F. Riddington, Royal Navy, whose name was brought to the notice of the Admiralty for valuable services

1914-15 Star (279744, F. Riddington, Ch. Sto., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (279744 F. Riddington. Ch. Sto. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (279744 Frederick Riddington. Actg. Ch. Sto. H.M.S. Venus.) contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £120-£160

Frederick Riddington was born on 19 June 1875, at Crowland, Lincolnshire, and commenced naval service as a Stoker Second Class in H.M.S. Victory II, on 14 June 1895. He was advanced to Leading Stoker Second Class, H.M.S. Duke of Wellington on 10 April 1903; Stoker Petty Officer, H.M.S. Imogene on 1 July 1906; and Chief Stoker, H.M.S. Venus on 21 October 1910. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal in 1910. For much of the Great War he served in H.M.S. Hyacinth, which, in early 1915, was deployed to German East Africa to blockade the German light cruiser SMS Königsberg. He joined the New Coast Guard Force in September 1919.

Riddington’s name was brought to the notice of the Admiralty for valuable services in the Prosecution of the war, such notice being published in the
London Gazette of 16 September 1919; however, the Admiralty deemed that this was not a Mention in Despatches and he was refused permission to wear the emblem.