Orders, Decorations and Medals

Worcester Training Ship Medal (2), ship-of-the-line enclosed by a garter inscribed, ‘The Incorporated Thames Nautical Training College’, surmounted by a crown, with flags to either side and scroll ‘H.M.S. Worcester’ below; reverse inscribed, ‘R. J. Stokes’, 55 x 48mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1921, stamped, ‘J.A.R.’, with ‘double dolphin’ suspension; another, smaller, reverse inscribed, ‘11 to 12 Stone H. M. Roussel, 1936’, 37 x 30mm., silver, ring suspension, in case, nearly extremely fine (2) £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Training Ship and Prize Medals.

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Lieutenant Reginald John Stokes, R.N.R. was killed in action, aged 30 years, on 5 April 1942 when serving on H.M.S. Tenedos. The destroyer was laying off Colombo when she was bombed and sunk by Japanese dive-bombers. The son of Reginald Henry Stokes and Ethel E. Stokes of Amersham, Buckinghamshire; he was buried in Colombo (Kanatte) General Cemetery.

Medal to ‘Roussel’ ex Spencer collection, D.N.W. 6 July 2006, part lot 969.