Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Able Seaman F. Terrill, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (226272 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (226272 A.B., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (226272 A.B. H.M.S. Courageous), contact wear, particularly apparent on the two silver awards, thus good fine or better (4) £80-100

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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Frederick Terrill was born in Portsmouth in September 1887 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in May 1903. An Able Seaman aboard H.M.S. Irresistible by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he served in the same battleship in the Dardanelles until she was sunk on 18 March 1915. Remaining in the same theatre of war, Terrill was transferred to the battleship Swiftsure, his service papers bearing a related stamp ‘For Land Operations’, and he returned to British waters in May 1916. His final wartime appointment, between July of the latter year and the end of hostilities, was aboard the cruiser Galatea. Having been awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in July 1921, he was pensioned ashore in September 1927, when he enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve.