Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (William Meakin); together with the recipient’s Memorial Scroll, ‘Mr William Meakin. Gunner R.N.’, plaque with two small holes drilled at 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock, otherwise very fine (2) £100-£140

William Meakin was born in Stoke Damerel, Devon on 19 April 1877 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 16 August 1893. Over the next 25 years he went on to serve in numerous ships and shore bases, was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 4 May 1910, and was advanced to Commissioned Gunner on 31 May 1918. He served for the majority of the Great War in H.M.S. Emperor of India, and having survived the Great War succumbed to the influenza outbreak of 1918, dying of influenza related pneumonia at Chatham Hospital on 9 December 1918. He is buried in the Portsmouth (Milton) Cemetery.

Sold with copied service history.