Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Deck Hand B. Sanderson, Royal Naval Reserve, who was killed in action when the Auxiliary Minesweeper Lady Ismay struck a mine laid by German Submarine U3 on 21 December 1915
1914-15 Star (DA.8310, B. Sanderson, D.H., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (8310DA B. Sanderson. D.H. R.N.R.) nearly extremely fine

Three: Able Seaman G. W. Wilson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who served in the Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division, at Gallipoli
1914-15 Star (T. Z-2958, G. W. Wilson, A.B. R.N.V.R.) ; British War and Victory Medals (T.Z.2958 G. W. Wilson. A.B. R.N.V.R.) good very fine (6) £90-£120

Benjamin Sanderson was born at Grimsby, Lincolnshire, on 9 November 1895 and joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 19 August 1915. He served during the Great War in H.M. Paddle Minesweeper Lady Ismay and was killed in action when it struck a mine laid by the German submarine U3, off Longsands, near the Galloper Lightship, on 21 December 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. The Lady Ismay was owned by the P. & A. Campbell Company and was requisitioned by the Admiralty as an auxiliary minesweeping vessel.



George William Wilson was born in Winlaton, Co. Durham, on 15 June 1894 and joined the Tyneside Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 7 January 1915. He was drafted to Hood Battalion R.N.V.R. in August 1915 and served at Mudros in the Gallipoli theatre of War, being evacuated later with dysentery. He was invalided from the R.N.D. Hospital at Blandford in September 1916.