Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist A. Pryke, Royal Navy, who was Mentioned in Despatches in January 1942

1914-15 Star (J.35896 A. Pryke L.Tel. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.35896 A. Pryke. L.Tel. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J.35896 A. Pryke. P.O. Tel. H.M.S. Cumberland), the Great War awards slightly later issues, contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £120-£160

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1942.

Arthur Pryke was born on 24 March 1899, at Bow, London, and commenced naval service as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Impregnable on 16 March 1915, being re-rated Boy Telegraphist on 3 July 1915. He was advanced to Telegraphist, H.M.S. Revenge on 1 April 1917, and Leading Telegraphist, on 24 March 1918. He was appointed Petty Officer Telegraphist, H.M.S. Cumberland, on 8 July 1930, and was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal in 1932, before being loaned to the Royal New Zealand Navy for three years in 1933. He was shore pensioned from H.M.S. Caledon on 23 March 1939, but was called up for active service in February 1940, and served in H.M.S. President II (Whitehall W.T.), H.M.S. Afrikander, and H.M.S. Titania. For his services during the Second World War he was Mentioned in Despatches. He was finally released from service in November 1945.