Medals from the Collection of the late Eric Smith

Pair: Lieutenant H. S. Mawbey, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

1914 Star (L7/3145 A.B., Hawke Bttn. R.N.D.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lieut., R.N.V.R.); together with a renamed British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut, R.N.V.R.) very fine (3) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Eric Smith.

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Harold Stanley Mawbey was born on 15 June 1894. Living at East Dulwich Grove, S.E. London, and a Bank Clerk by occupation, he enrolled into the R.N.V.R. on 23 April 1914. Originally with Hawke Battalion, he joined Drake Battalion in August 1914. Posted to the Dardanelles, he was wounded on 22 June 1915, suffering a shrapnel wound to the left thigh. As a result he was invalided to Mudros and thence, in May 1916, to England. Commissioned a Temporary Sub Lieutenant in February 1917, he was posted to the minesweeper Marsa in June. The vessel was sunk in a collision in Harwich Harbour in November 1917, after which, in December, he was posted to the minesweeper, Totnes. Promoted to Temporary Lieutenant in February 1918, he joined the destroyer Aberdare in May 1918 and was demobilised in 1919. With copied research.