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

Three: Chief Stoker S. R. Sharp, Royal Navy

China 1900, no clasp (Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Isis); British War Medal 1914-20 (152406 Ch. Sto., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S.& G.C., E.VII.R. (152406 Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Acheron) slight contact marks to first and last, very fine and better (3) £120-140

Stephen Richard Sharpe was born in Dover on 24 February 1871. A butcher by occupation, he entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in January 1890. He was pensioned ashore, joining the Royal Fleet Reserve in February 1912. With the onset of the Great War, he served on Wildfire, the base at Sheerness, Isle of Sheppy, from August 1914 to September 1917 and thence on the submarine depot ship Arrogant at Dover until the end of the war. Sold with copied service details. Award of the B.W.M. confirmed.