Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Able Seaman A. W. Wilby, Royal Navy, later Royal Fleet Reserve, who served in H.M.S. Royal Oak at the Battle of Jutland

1914-15 Star (J.11137. A. W. Wilby. A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.11137 A. W. Wilby. A.B. R.N.); Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Alexander William Wilby); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (J.11137 (Ch. B. 17917) A. W. Wilby. R.F.R.) generally very fine and better (5) £100-£140

Alexander William Wilby was born on 19 June 1893, at Peckham, London, and commenced naval service as Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Ganges II, on 6 February 1911. He was advanced to Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. King Edward II, on 6 August 1911, and Able Seaman, H.M.S. Indomitable, on 10 January 1913. During the Great War he was appointed to H.M.S. Royal Oak in April 1916 and was present in her during the Battle of Jutland, where Royal Oak engaged the German battlecruisers, S.M.S. Wiesbaden, S.M.S. Derflinger and S.M.S. Seydlitz. He was discharged from H.M.S. Pembroke I, on 19 June 1923, time expired, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve, being awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in May 1927. He was appointed to be a Postman or Porter (London) in 1926 and to be a Post Office, Male Sorter, in June 1927. He was awarded the Imperial Service Medal as a Postal and Telegraph Officer, in the London Gazette of 15 July 1958. He died at Tulse Hill, London in 1972.