Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Leading Signalman J. Hollingsworth, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (230937 J. Hollingsworth, L. Sig., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (230937 J. Hollingsworth. Sig. R.N.) very fine

Three: Leading Stoker T. J. Guest, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (297061, T. J. Guest, Sto. 1., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (297061 T. J. Guest. L. Sto. R.N.) contact marks, very fine (6) £70-£90

Jesse Hollingsworth was born at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on 3 July 1886 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Pembroke I on 20 June 1904. He was advanced to Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Hawke, on 20 December 1904, and appointed Signalman, H.M.S. Pembroke I, on 1 August 1905. He was advanced to Leading Signalman, H.M.S. Commonwealth in 1914. In 1917 he was dis-rated and reduced from Leading Signaller, for absence having been convicted by the Civil Powers, and sentenced to five months imprisonment, for bigamy in October 1917. On returning to the navy he joined H.M.S. Attentive (Velox). He was demobilised in April 1919 and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve.

Thomas Jaques Guest was born at Liverpool on 17 June 1881 and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker Second Class in H.M.S. Vivid II on 13 April 1901. He was advanced to Stoker First Class on 1 July 1906, and during the Great War he served in H.M.S. Blake for service in the Acorn Class destroyer H.M.S. Nymphe, and later H.M.S. Colleen for service in the ‘M’ Class destroyer, H.M.S. Musketeer. He was appointed Leading Stoker in June 1917, and was shore pensioned in 1923.