Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Chief Ship’s Cook E. G. Harrison, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Hampshire was sunk off Orkney, 5 June 1916

1914-15 Star (346362 E. G. Harrison. Ch. Sh. Ck., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (346362 E. G. Harrison. Ch. Sh. Ck. R.N.); Memorial Plaque (Edwin George Harrison); Memorial Scroll ‘Ch. Sh. Cook Edwin George Harrison, H.M.S. Hampshire’, Buckingham Palace enclosure, nearly extremely fine (4) £400-£500

Edwin George Harrison was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, on 29 July 1885 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Second Cook’s Mate on 31 July 1903. Advanced Ship’s Cook on 30 October 1911, he joined H.M.S. Hampshire on 27 January 1914, and was promoted Chief Ship’s Cook on 4 December 1914. He was killed in action when the Hampshire, conveying Field Marshal Lord Kitchener on a diplomatic mission to Russia, struck a German-mine off Orkney on 5 June 1916 and sank within 15 minutes with the loss of 737 lives. There were only 12 survivors. Harrison is buried in Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery, Orkney.

Sold with the recipient’s hand-written cook-book, which paints a graphic picture of both the quality and variety of food in the Royal Navy; a true copy of the recipient’s Certificate of Service; Admiralty letters regarding the recipient’s presumed and confirmed death; named Admiralty enclosure, and copied record of service.