Long Service Medals 669
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C.,
E.VII.R. (2) (T. H. Edwards, Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Mutine.; 180499 A. G. Finch, Painter 2Cl, H.M.S. Fantome.) minor edge bruising, good very fine (2)
£80-£120
Thomas Henry Edwards was born in Cardiff on 6 March 1870, and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 9 January 1890. He joined H.M.S. Mutine on 5 November 1903, was advanced Chief Stoker on 5 November 1904, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 21 February 1905. He was invalided out of the service to pension on 16 October 1909, having sustained a severe injury in an accident in H.M.S. Triumph on 26 March 1909. Following the outbreak of the Great War he attempted to re-join, but was refused as medically unfit.
Alfred George Finch was born at Stoke Damarel, Devonshire, on 26 February 1877, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 10 August 1894. He was advanced to Painter 2nd Class on 15 July 1904, and joined H.M.S. Fantome on 23 January 1909, being awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 25 May 1910. Advanced Painter 1st Class on 15 July 1910, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Ajax, and was ‘discharged dead’ on 1 April 1915, dying from a ruptured aneurysm. He is buried in Osmondwall Cemetery, Orkney.
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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C.,
E.VII.R. (2) (175985 Samuel Colwill, Carp. Mate, H.M.S. Penguin.; 161690 James Rogers, Car. Mate., H.M.S. Pandora.) the first nearly extremely fine, the second very fine (2)
£80-£120
Samuel Colwill was born in Plymouth on 18 February 1871, and joined the Royal Navy as Carpenter’s Crew on 1 October 1893. He was advanced to Carpenter’s Mate on 19 June 1903, joined H.M.S. Penguin on 1 September 1909, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 30 March 1910. He was advanced Chief Shipwright on 1 August 1914, and served during the Great War, being killed when the S.S. Maloja (in which he had embarked for passage to his ship H.M.S. Exmouth) was sunk in the English Channel off Dover on 27 February 1916. He is buried in Dover (St. Mary’s) New Cemetery, Kent.
James Rogers was born at Pill, near Louth in Wales, on 17 March 1869 and joined the Royal Navy on 15 July 1891. Advanced Carpenter’s Mate on 7 April 1896, he joined H.M.S. Pandora on 5 September 1905, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 3 August 1906. On 1 December 1912 he was re-categorised as Shipwright 1st Class, and he was pensioned on 26 July 1913. He re-joined the Royal Navy on the outbreak of the Great War, but was not retained, and was discharged to shore on 19 October 1914.
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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C. (3),
E.VII.R. (2) (160825 James Webber, P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. Waterwitch.; 124806. A. J. Wilkins, Sh. Cpl. 1Cl. H.M.S. Rambler.); G.V.R., 1st issue (342142 R. C. Young, Cooper, H.M.S. Sealark.) the obverse of the first polished and worn, therefore fair to fine, the reverse better; the others good very fine and better (3)
£100-£140
James Webber was born at Portsmouth on 10 December 1875, and was educated at the Greenwich Hospital School. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 12 May 1891, and was advanced to Petty Officer 1st Class on 10 May 1906. He joined H.M.S. Waterwitch on 7 March 1908, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 8 March 1909. He served during the Great War, was advanced to Acting Chief Petty Officer on 1 March 1917, and was discharged on 10 March 1919.
Alfred James Wilkins was born at Charlton Kings, Gloucester, on 13 July 1868, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 17 October 1883. He was advanced Ship’s Corporal 1st Class on 3 July 1895, and joined H.M.S. Rambler on 28 February 1901, being awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 7 January 1902. He was promoted to Master at Arms on 13 November 1903, and was discharged to pension on 11 October 1906, joining the Royal Fleet Reserve the following day. He was called up for service during the Great War, and was aboard the Armed Merchant Cruiser Moldavia when she was sunk in the English Channel by the German submarine U-57 on 23 May 1918. He was finally demobilised on 7 April 1919.
Robert Campbell Young was born at Duns, Berwick, on 8 December 1877, and joined the Royal Navy as Carpenter’s Crew on 27 May 1898. Advanced Cooper on 4 September 1906, he joined H.M.S. Sealark on 28 March 1913, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 10 July of that year. He served throughout the Great War, and was shore pensioned on 2 July 1920.
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The Royal Navy L.S. & G.C. Medal awarded to Petty Officer 1st Class L. J. Hofgartner, Royal Navy, who was awarded the D.S.M. for his gallant deeds in action with enemy submarines in the Atlantic Ocean on 30 July 1917 while serving in the hired trawler ‘Hunter’
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (178122. L. J. Hofgartner, P.O. 1 Cl. H.M.S. Hindustan.) very fine £100-£140
D.S.M. London Gazette 2 November 1917: ‘For services in action with enemy submarines.’
The Admiralty medal roll confirms that Petty Officer Hofgartner was decorated for an action in the Atlantic Ocean on 30 July 1917 whilst serving in the anti-submarine boom defence vessel H.M.T. 90, also known as ‘Hunter’.
Lorenz John Hofgartner was born on 13 October 1878 in Finsbury, London, the son of a German father and a French mother. He joined the Royal Navy on 13 October 1896 and between this time and 1907 he served on a large number of ships. Serving in the pre- dreadnought battleship Hindustan from November 1907 to April 1912, he gained the rank of Petty Officer 1st Class on 21 July 1910 and received the Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 16 October 1911. From April 1912 to February 1913 he was stationed at H.M.S. Vernon, the Royal Navy’s Torpedo Branch, where extensive research and development was carried out to develop anti-submarine devices, and he is noted as being aboard the cruiser Minerva, February 1913 until May 1913.
Hofgartner served in H.M.S. Excellent (Portsmouth Gunnery School) from 1 June 1913 until 21 October 1913 when he was transferred back to Vernon and then on 1 February 1914 to the scout cruiser H.M.S. Attentive, serving as part of the 6th Destroyer Flotilla on the Dover Patrol until 22 December 1914. He was then transferred to H.M.S. Victory I, the accounting and holding Barracks at Portsmouth, remaining there until March 1915 when he joined the sloop H.M.S. Cormorant for one week. On 10 April 1915 he joined H.M.T. 90, also known as Hunter, remaining with her until 23 May 1918. Hunter was a hired trawler, Admiralty Number 90, built in 1903. She was in service throughout the war firstly as a minesweeper and then from September 1915 as an anti-submarine boom defence vessel. As stated previously, Hofgartner was awarded the D.S.M. for gallantry against enemy submarines while serving in her on 30 July 1917 in the Atlantic Ocean. He returned to Vernon on 24 May 1918 where he was promoted Acting Chief Petty Officer on 1 August 1918 and also served in the depot ship H.M.S. Woolwich and at the shore establishment Victory X in 1919. Hofgartner’s final seagoing appointment was aboard the cruiser H.M.S. Dido on 29 April 1919. He was demobilized in September 1919 and discharged to pension in July 1920.
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