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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 331

1914-15 Star (5) (181999, E.J. Tucker, P.O., R.N.; 343990, J. Worrall, Shpt.1, R.N.; J.27635, J. Stone, O.Tel., R.N.; S.3440, W. Brown, Sto., R.N.R.; D.A.5167, W. Watson, D.H., R.N.R.), generally very fine

Mercantile Marine War Medal (William Jenkins), very fine (6)

181999 Petty Officer Ernest John Tucker, born Torquay, Devon, April 1879; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, serving in H.M.S. Impregnable, October 1894; promoted Able Seaman, November 1898; advanced Petty Officer, 1.2.1915; served during the Great War in H.M.S. Centurion; awarded L.S.& G.C., 17.4.1917; discharged, 4.6.1919.

343990 Shipwright Joseph Worrall, born Portsea, Hampshire, March 1882; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Carpenter´s Crew, 19.2.1901; advanced Shipwright, 24.10.1905; transferred to H.M.S. Neptune, 28.1.1913, and served in her during the Great War; discharged, 18.2.1923.

J.27635 Ordinary Telegraphist James Stone, of Gillingham, Kent; served in the Royal Navy during the Great War in H.M.S. Ardent; killed in action at the Battle of Jutland, 1.6.1916, when Ardent was sunk by secondary fire from the German dreadnought Westfalen with the loss of all but two of her crew, and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.

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