Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Commissioned Chief Gunner A. Horbury, Royal Navy, who accidentally drowned on 3 December 1914, when washed overboard from a steam launch tender to H.M.S. Bellerophon

1914-15 Star (Ch. Gnr. A. Horbury, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch. Gnr. A. Horbury. R.N.) nearly extremely fine (3) £80-£100

Arthur Horbury was born at Bradford, Lancaster, on 21 December 1864 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy First Class in H.M.S. Impregnable on 13 October 1882. He was advanced to Able Seaman, H.M.S. Cleopatra, on 1 August 1884, and Leading Seaman, H.M.S. Icarus, on 30 October 1889. He was appointed Petty Officer First Class in H.M.S. Cambridge on 2 November 1894, and transferred to the Officers Section as Gunner, with seniority from 17 November 1897, and as Chief Gunner, in November 1912. He was appointed to H.M.S. Bellerophon in April 1914, and was tragically drowned when serving in that ship on 3 December 1914, when he was washed overboard from Bellerophon’s steam launch. He is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone at Kirkwall, (St. Olafs) Cemetery, Orkney.