Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Able Seaman C. E. Kirkbank, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (J.18064, C. E. Kirkbank, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.18064 C. E. Kirkbank. A.B. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (J.18064 C. E. Kirkbank. A.B. H.M.S. Courageous.) the Great War awards heavily polished, with edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine, the last better (4) £100-£140

Charles Ernest Kirkbank was born on 7 November 1896, at Hammersmith, London. He commenced naval service as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Impregnable, on 21 June 1912. He was advanced to Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Hercules, on 7 November 1914, and to Able Seaman, on 3 July 1915. He was appointed to H.M.S. Vernon, on 1 October 1916, and then to H.M.S. Attentive II (Falcon), on 27 December 1916; later in the Great War he was appointed to H.M.S. Columbine (Woolston). In January 1921, he was posted to H.M.S. Victory, for service at the Porton Experimental Station. In 1923 he was appointed to H.M.S. Vernon, and then served in several ships. He was appointed to H.M.S. Courageous in February 1928, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in November 1929. He was shore pensioned from H.M.S. Victory on 6 November 1936. Recalled for service to H.M.S. Vernon on 31 July 1939, he was appointed to the Weymouth Experimental Station on 1 April 1940. He was released from service in H.M.S. Vernon on 24 September 1945.