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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 60

Pair: Chief Stoker H.T. Hipperson, Royal Navy Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (158054 Sto: H.T. Hipperson, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, partially officially renamed; Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ´Admiral´s bust´ type (158054. H.T. Hipperson, Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Galatea.), good very fine (2) Estimate £ 300-400 158054 Chief Stoker Henry Thomas Hipperson, born Gosport, Hampshire, 1871; joined Royal Navy as Stoker 2nd Class, 1890; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-8.6.1900; served during the Great War in H.M.S. Galatea (light cruiser), 21.12.1914-30.6.1918, during which time she was initially assigned as the leader to the 2nd Destroyer Squadron of the Harwich Force, guarding the eastern approaches to the English Channel; in the latter capacity, she took part in the shooting down of Zeppelin L 7, 4.5.1916; she later took part in the Battle of Jutland, 31 May - 1st June 1916, where she was the flagship of the First Light Cruiser Squadron under Commodore E.S. Alexander-Sinclair; Galatea was the first ship to report the presence of German ships, triggering the battle, and she was also the first to receive a hit by the German light cruiser Elbing; Hipperson was demobilised 11.2.1919.

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