Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Stoker First Class S. Bond, Royal Navy, who was killed when H.M.S. Seagull collided with another ship in the Firth of Clyde on 30 September 1918

1914-15 Star (K.15655. S. Bond. Sto.1. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K.15655 S. Bond. Sto. 1 R.N.); Memorial Plaque (Sidney Bond) extremely fine (4) £100-£140

Sidney Bond was born in Exeter on 15 March 1894 and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker Second Class on 19 August 1912. Promoted Stoker First Class on 19 August 1913, he served during the Great War in a variety of ships and shore based establishments, and was killed on 30 September 1918, when the Seagull was sunk in a collision, probably with the steamship Corrib, in the Clyde. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

Sold with a postcard photograph of the recipient and a photographic image of H.M.S. Seagull.