Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Able Seaman E. C. Frampton, Royal Navy

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (217116 A.B., H.M.S. Philomel); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (217116 A.B., H.M.S. Philomel); 1914-15 Star (217116 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (217116 A.B., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (217116 A.B., H.M.S. Vernon), mounted for display, some contact marks, very fine and better (6) £250-300

Ethelbert Charles Frampton was born in Bridport, Dorset on 11 March 1886. A wineman by occupation, he entered the Royal Navy in 1904 as a Boy 2nd Class and attained the rank of Able Seaman in 1905. Throughout the Great war he served aboard the pre-dreadnaught battleship Britannia and was slightly wounded when she was sunk by a torpedo from the German submarine UB.50, off Cape Trafalgar on 9 November 1918. The ship had the sad distinction of being the last British warship to be sunk in the Great War - 40 of her complement were lost. Sold with copied service paper.