Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Ordnance Artificer C. S. Old, Royal Navy, who was killed during an enemy air raid on Plymouth on 21 April 1941

1914-15 Star (M.3868, C. S. Old, Ar. Mte., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.3868 C. S. Old. Act. Armr. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.3868 C. S. Old. C.O.A. 2. H.M.S. Ramillies.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £100-£140

Charles Seymour Old was born on 14 December 1889, at Truro, Cornwall, and commenced naval service as an Armourer’s Crewman, H.M.S. Vivid III, on 4 December 1911. He was advanced to Armourer, H.M.S. Glorious, on 1 April 1919, and Chief Ordnance Artificer Second Class, H.M.S. Ramillies, on 1 May 1925. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1926, and was shore pensioned on 3 December 1933. In civilian life he became the popular landlord of the Crown Inn at Penzance. He was recalled for War service in September 1939, and was killed in an enemy air raid on Plymouth on 21 April 1941, when serving in H.M.S. Boscawen.