Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Petty Officer 1st Class F. Freemantle, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (169985 P.O. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (169985 P.O. 1, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (169985 P.O. 2 Cl., H.M.S. Vernon), generally extremely fine (4) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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Frank Freemantle was born in Hampshire in January 1877 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in October 1892. A Petty Officer 1st Class by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he served aboard the destroyer H.M.S. Sparrowhawk at the Battle of Jutland, which ship, having been raked by enemy fire at point blank range, was in collision with the damaged Broke. Over 50 men lost their lives, ironically the majority of them from the Broke.

Freemantle, who had been awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in March 1910, went on to serve aboard another destroyer, the Medina, from June 1916 until the end of the War, and was demobilised in October 1919; sold with his original parchment Certificate of Service.

Also see Lot 253 for his son’s D.S.M. and other awards.