Long Service Medals 1182 Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (John Knight, C.P.O., H.M.S. Vivid.) edge bruise, very fine £80-£120 x1183 x1184 x1185
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (C. Porter, P.O. 1st Cl., H.M.S. Vernon.) impressed naming, nearly extremely fine
£100-£140
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (R. A. Cock, Lg. Shipwt., H.M.S. Vivid.) impressed naming, nearly extremely fine
£100-£140
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (E. T. R. Henderson, Comd. Boatn. H.M. Coast Guard.) impressed naming, good very fine
£80-£100
1186 Royal Navy L.S. & G.C.,
E.VII.R. (139411 George Ward, Ch. Yeo. Of Sigs. H.M.S. Cormorant.) good very fine £50-£60 Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2010.
George Ward was born in Battersea, Surrey, on 20 September 1871. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 1 November 1886 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in December 1887. Appointed a Signalman in September 1889 when on Reindeer, Ward was promoted to Leading Signalman when based at Vivid I in June 1896. He was re-rated as a Yeoman Signaller 2nd Class in February 1897 when on Hibernia and was promoted to Yeoman of Signals in January 1899 when on the same ship. He attained the rank of Chief Yeoman of Signals in October 1903 when on Impregnable. Awarded the Royal Navy L.S. & G.C. whilst serving on the Cormorant, September 1906-October 1908.
Chief Yeoman of Signals Ward died of heart failure whilst serving with the boys training ship Impregnable, 8 February 1910.
1187 Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (288442 James O’Kelly, Ch. Sto. H.M.S. Majestic.) good very fine £80-£120 Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2010.
James O’Kelly was born in Castletownroche, Co. Cork, on 15 March 1879. A Prison Warder by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in April 1898. After initial training at Vivid II at Devonport, he joined the 2nd class cruiser Philomel in December 1898, where he remained until March 1903. Between 11 October 1899 and 23 January 1902, the Philomel served in South African waters and Stoker O’Kelly was subsequently awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal.
O’Kelly was promoted to Stoker 1st Class in July 1906 when on the armoured cruiser Devonshire, and Leading Stoker in August 1907, and Stoker Petty Officer in October 1908 whilst serving on the same ship. Serving on the battleship Bellerophon in December 1911 he was advanced to Acting Chief Stoker and was confirmed at that rank in December 1912. During July-October 1913 he served on the old battleship Majestic, at which time he was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal.
Throughout the Great War Chief Stoker O’Kelly served aboard the battlecruiser Tiger, being present at the battles of Dogger Bank, 24 January 1915, and Jutland, 31 May/1 June 1916. For his service at Jutland, he was awarded the Italian Medal for Military Valour in Bronze (London Gazette 25 November 1917) and the Russian St. George Medal for Bravery, 4th Class (London Gazette 4 August 1918). On 24 September 1920 Chief Stoker O’Kelly was pensioned off. He was subsequently employed at the Royal Naval Engineering College at Keyham.
x1188 Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (342658 Edward Codling, Cooper., H.M.S. Latona.) extremely fine £100-£120
Edward Codling was born at Auckinleek, Ayrshire, on 27 March 1877, and joined the Royal Navy as a carpenter on 5 April 1899. He was advanced to 2nd Cooper on 18 July 1900, and to 1st Cooper on 18 July 1904. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal on 29 April 1914, whilst aboard H.M.S. Latona, which he left on 8 March 1915 to join H.M.S. Princess Irene, a newly built passenger steamer requisitioned by the Royal Navy from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in January 1915. Converted for minelaying, she had successfully completed two operations when, on 27 May 1915, she suddenly exploded at her moorings in the River Medway with the total loss of the ship and all but one of the crew of about 400. Cooper Edward Codling was amongst those who died in the explosion which was caused by the accidental detonation of one of her 400 mines, most of which had been primed the previous day. Sold with copied record of service and a detailed booklet about the disaster, Blown to Eternity! The loss of H.M.S. Princess Irene, by John Hendy.
x1189
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C. (2), G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.11433 A. J. Glosby. E.R.A.1. H.M.S. Effingham) minor official corrections to number and ship; another, G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (K.33351 G. Scott. L. Sto. H.M. S. Pembroke.) light contact marks, very fine or better (2)
£80-£120
Alfred John Glosby was born in Kensington, London, on 9 January 1894, and joined the Royal Navy as an Engine Room Artificer 4th Class on 11 January 1915. Posted to H.M.S. Hercules on 23 February of that year, he served in her during the Great War, including at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. He remained in the Service following the cessation of hostilities, and was advanced Engine Room Artificer 1st Class on 11 January 1927.
1190
Provenance: Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996. Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (M.37848 A. Murphy. SY. P. O. H.M.S. Nelson) ship partially
officially corrected, edge bruising, nearly very fine 1191 £40-£50
Provenance: Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996. Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (L.5433. C. W. Frampton. O.S. 2. H.M.S. Frobisher.) contact
marks, nearly very fine £50-£60
Provenance: Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996. 1192 Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (CH.22650 M. H. O’Reilly. Mus. R.M.) good very fine £50-£70
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