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

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (344915 Ernest Scoble, E.A. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Vivid) good very fine £50-70

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 Scoble was born at Falmouth, Cornwall in January 1881 and entered the Royal Navy as an Acting Electrical Artificer 4th Class in March 1902. By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 he had risen to the 1st Class grade of his chosen profession and was serving in the armoured cruiser Devonshire, but in September 1916 he came ashore to the torpedo school establishment Defiance, where he remained until returning to sea in the hired trawler Edwina for minesweeping duties from June 1918 until the end of the War. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in February 1920, Scoble was finally pensioned ashore in June of the same year.