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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 104

Four: Leading Stoker E.A. Beer, Royal Navy China 1900, no clasp (279632 E.A. Beer. Sto. H.M.S. Phoenix.), an impressed duplicate issue, with fixed suspension, contact mark in obverse field; 1914-15 Star (279632 E.A. Beer. L. Sto., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (279632 E.A. Beer. L. Sto. R.N.), otherwise good very fine (4) Estimate £ 140-180 279632 Leading Stoker Edward Andrew Beer, born Plymouth, Devon, June 1870; enlisted in the Royal Navy in H.M.S. Vivid II, May 1895; served in H.M.S. Phoenix (20.2.1900 - 14.5.1903); transferred to H.M.S Defence, 9.2.1909; promoted Leading Stoker, 21.8.1912; served during the Great War in Defence; killed in action at the Battle of Jutland, 31.5.1916, when the Defence was sunk with the loss of all lives; Beer is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

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