Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (5) (M.Z.4567 S. W. Barker. Tel. R.N.V.R.; B.Z.1098 G. Bishop. A.B. R.N.V.R.; A.A. 2123 A. G. Swan. A.B. R.N.V.R.; R.3962 A. Thompson. A.B. R.N.V.R.; C.Z.1107 G. Watt. A.B. R.N.V.R.; Measam J. Farmer; James D. M. Swanson) edge knocks, contact marks, generally very fine (7) £100-£140

George Watt a Labourer from Aberdeen attested for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and served during the Great War, first in the Mediterranean theatre. Following a spell in hospital as a consequence of dysentery, he served in the Balkans and later on the Western Front where he was taken prisoner on 7 February 1917. He spent the remainder of the war in Germany. Repatriated on 9 December 1918, he was demobilised on 22 January 1919.

Measam James Farmer was born in Cardiff in 1878. He served in the Mercantile Marine as First Engineer in SS. Euterpe during the Great War and died aged 39, on 7 January 1916 when she hit a mine and sank in the North Sea. He is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, London.