Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (292118 Ernest Cook, Alias Ernest Adlington, S.P.O., H.M.S. Wallington) replacement suspension and naming detailsworn in places as a result of old brooch-mount fitting, otherwise good fine £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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Ernest Cook was born in Barford, Nottingham in March 1882 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class (using the alias Adlington) in May 1899. Having enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve in June 1911, as “time expired”, he was recalled in August 1914 and joined H.M.S. Hermes, aboard which ship - recently converted to a seaplane carrier - he was still serving when she was torpedoed and sunk in the Dover Straits that October - 44 men lost their lives. Following one or two shore postings, Cook returned to sea in the sloop Myosotis, between June 1916 and February 1917, was awarded his unusually inscribed L.S. & G.C. Medal while serving aboard the boom defence vessel Wallington in August 1917, and ended the War with an appointment in the submarine depot ship Bonaventure. He was demobilised in June 1921.