Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Leading Seaman A. J. L. Loh, Royal Navy, later Royal Fleet Reserve

1914-15 Star (189672, A. J. L. Loh, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (189672 A. J. L. Loh. L.S. R.N.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (189672 (Ch. B.2841) A. J. L. Loh. L.S. R.F.R.) cleaned, light contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (4) £80-£100

Anthony John Leonard Loh was born on 11 January 1881 at London. He commenced naval service as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Impregnable, on 17 July 1896. He was advanced to Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Hood on January 1899, and Able Seaman, 17 December 1899. He was discharged to shore, by purchase from H.M.S. Pembroke I, on 23 June 1905, with the stated intention of joining the Royal Fleet Reserve for the period up to January 1911. He however re-engaged in the Royal Fleet Reserve in 1910, for a further six years. During the Great War he was advanced to Leading Seaman and served in H.M.S. Magnificent and H.M.S. Pembroke I, and was demobilized on 21 February 1919. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1922. In the 1939 Register he is shown as a cab driver, residing in Paddington, London. He died in London in 1949.