Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Fireman E. Pace, Royal Naval Reserve

1914-15 Star (109G Fmn., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (G.109 Fmn., R.N.R.) nearly extremely fine (3) £90-110

Fireman Emanuele Pace, Royal Naval Reserve, was killed in action when his ship, H.M.S. Louvain was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC.22 on 20 January 1918. H.M.S. Louvain was previously a merchant ship (Dresden) taken up and converted by the Royal Navy in October 1914 for use as an armed boarding steamer. The ship was sailing from Malta when it was attacked. It sank with the loss of seven officers and 217 ratings, 70 of whom were Maltese.

Emmanuele Pace was the son of Carmelo and Carmela Pace and husband of Marianna Pace of Floriana, Malta. His name is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.