Orders, Decorations and Medals

1914-15 Star (Commr. J. H. Woodbridge, R.N.) nearly extremely fine £60-80

M.I.D. London Gazette 11 December 1918. ‘Honour for Services in Minesweeping Operations: Adriatic’

Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd Class with swords, London Gazette 5 June 1917.

Julian Herbert Woodbridge was born in Uxbridge on 6 January 1878 and became a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 15 March 1897 and attained the rank of Commander on 3 December 1913. On the onset of war he was on the armoured cruiser Cochrane and was was serving on board the same ship at the battle of Jutland. From October 1916 to the end of the war Commander Woodbridge was on the destroyers Wear and Hydra. He was placed on the Retired List as unfit from 24 January 1919. He died on 17 May 1921 at Los Andes, Chile, ‘“from illness contracted on War Service” (Times 20.5.21)’. The illness was possibly tuberculosis from which he suffered in late June-July 1916. Sold with copied service paper and other research.