Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Able Seaman A. G. Roberts, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (210334 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (210334 L.S., R.N.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S., G.V.R., 1st issue (210334 (Dev. B. 1631) A.B., R.F.R.); French Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, the third officially re-impressed, generally good very fine (5) £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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Albert George Roberts was born at Reigate, Surrey in September 1884 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in June 1900. Having purchased his discharge in October 1906, and enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve, he was recalled on the outbreak of hostilities and joined the ship’s company of H.M.S. Doris. Roberts subsequently went on to share in her honours during assorted operations in the Dardanelles, off Egypt and in the Mediterranean, his Service Record bearing an official endorsement, ‘Noted for War Service, Syria Coast Operations’, a distinction that no doubt led to him being awarded his Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 1 April 1919 refers). He was demobilised in the same month that his French decoration was gazetted and, in June 1921, invalided from the strength of the R.F.R. as a result of malaria.