Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Leading Seaman G. H. Beard, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (212575, G. H. Beard, L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (212575 G. H. Beard. L.S. R.N.) light contact marks, nearly very fine

Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (William C. Morris); together with a Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Jewel, silver and enamel, the reverse named ‘Brother W. Charles Morris’ and awarded by the Tower Lodge, No. 5479, dated 1927, in jewellers case of issue, very fine (5) £60-£80

George Henry Beard was born at Peckham, London, on 31 August 1885 and commenced naval service as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Impregnable on 29 December 1900. He was advanced to Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Sutlej, on 30 August 1903 and qualified as a Naval Diver in October 1906. He was appointed Able Seaman, H.M.S. Berwick, on 1 May 1905, and Leading Seaman, H.M.S. Black Prince on 1 October 1909, but was reduced back to Able Seaman, for absence, the following year. Over his career he was dis-rated on several occasions and confined to the cells, both for absence and drunkenness. During the Great War he served in H.M.S. Hibernia, H.M.S. Pembroke, and was serving at Mudros and Suvla Bay in the Monitor H.M.S. Earl of Peterborough. He later served in H.M.S. Leviathan, H.M.S. Caesar and was ashore at the barracks at Bermuda. He was shore demobilised in October 1919.

William Charles Morris was born in Pwllheli, Wales, in 1890 and was serving in and was a survivor of the S.S. Carnarvon Bay (Captain William Griffith) when she was lost at sea off Melbourne, Australia, in 1910 (research with lot refers).

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