Auction Catalogue

29 June 2022

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Lot

№ 214

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29 June 2022

Hammer Price:
£90

Three: Petty Officer (Leading Torpedo Operator) E. C. Moss, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (234975, E. C. Moss, A.B. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (234975 E. C. Moss. P.O. R.N.) nearly very fine

Three: Officers Steward Third Class T. Davies, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (L.6650, T. Davies. O.S. 3., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals L.6650 T. Davies. O.S. 3 R.N.) polished and worn, therefore fair to fine (6) £70-£90

Ernest Charles Moss was born at Tottenham, Middlesex, on 23 January 1890 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Impregnable on 25 October 1905. He was advanced to Able Seaman, H.M.S. Black Prince, on 20 September 1909, and during the Great War he served in H.M.S. Actaeon (for service in Torpedo Boat 115), being advanced to Leading Seaman on 1 February 1916. He subsequently served in Torpedo Boat 23, and other small craft, having as their parent shore base, H.M.S. Hecla, H.M.S. Apollo, and H.M.S. Pembroke I and II. He was promoted to Petty Officer on 1 August 1918, and was shore pensioned on 31 January 1930, being rated as Leading Torpedo Operative. He was recalled to H.M.S. Pembroke I, in November 1939 and served in H.M.S. Pyramus, for service at the Naval Anti Aircraft Range. He was invalided from the Royal Naval Hospital at Chatham in May 1944.

Timothy Davies was born at Aldershot, Hampshire, on 21 January 1897 and joined the Royal Navy as an Officers Steward Third Class in H.M.S. Vivid I, on 14 May 1915. He was appointed to H.M.S. Dido (Medea) on 21 June 1915 and subsequently served in H.M.S. Actaeon, H.M.S. Rule, H.M.S. Vivid I, and H.M.S. Revenge, in which ship he was confined to the cells for 5 days. Promptly returned to H.M.S. Vivid I, he was discharged as unsuitable on 1 November 1918, with his service record noted that he was to be ‘sent to the Army’.