Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Leading Seaman F. T. Roberts, Royal Navy, later Mercantile Marine
1914-15 Star (J.7087. F. T. Roberts, L.S. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.7087 F. T. Roberts. A.B. R.N.); together with hallmarked silver Boxing prize medal ‘Feather Weight A.B. F. Roberts H.M.S. Seymour Winning Team Flotillas Novices 1918’, good very fine

Pair: Private William Brady, South Lancashire Regiment, who died of wounds in June 1917
British War and Victory Medals (21907 Pte. W. Brady. S. Lan. R.) extremely fine (5) £70-£90

Frederick Thomas Roberts was born at Portsmouth, Hampshire, on 3 July 1892, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on board H.M.S. Ganges at Harwich. He advanced to Ordinary Seaman in July 1910, to Able Seaman in January 1911 and to Leading Seaman in June 1915. Deprived of a Good Conduct Badge in March 1917, he was disrated to Able Seaman and served subsequently aboard H.M.S. Seymour until October 1919. He was advanced again to Leading Seaman in August 1920 and remained in this rate until discharged ‘C.S. time expired.’ He briefly joined the Merchant Navy, signing on in July 1923 as an Able Seaman and, after a return trip to Quebec, served for 4 months on the Troopship S.S. Marglen as Quartermaster before singing off at Southampton on 8 January 1924. Sold with Board of Trade Continuous Certificate of Discharge and three group photographs aboard H.M.S. Seymour, including boxing team, together with copied research.

William ‘Billy’ Brady died of wounds received during preparations for the 3rd Battle of Ypres, on 25 June 1917. He was with the 11th Battalion in the Zillebeke area of the salient when he was badly wounded and carried down to the field hospital at Poperinghe, where he died. He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. Sold with an original photograph of Brady in uniform with his sister Annie taken in 1917 immediately prior to his deployment.