Auction Catalogue

22 September 2006

Starting at 11:30 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 881

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22 September 2006

Hammer Price:
£290

Four: Chief Stoker S. H. Norley, Royal Navy, killed in action aboard H.M.S. Aboukir

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (295527 St. P.O., H.M.S. Hyacinth); 1914-15 Star (295527 Act. Ch. Sto., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (295527 Act. Ch. Sto., R.N.) good very fine and better (4) £220-260

Chief Stoker Sidney Henry Norley, Royal Navy, was killed in action on 22 September 1914 when serving aboard the armoured cruiser H.M.S. Aboukir. The Aboukir, together with her sister ships the Hogue and Cressy were torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U.9 when on patrol in the southern part of the North Sea. The total loss of life in this triple disaster was over 1,400 men. Chief Stoker Norley’s name is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial; he was the husband of Daisy Ethel Norley and a native of Offham, Kent.