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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 337

British War Medal (10) (110930 A. Barrett. Ch. St. R.N.; 7.39031 H. Hargraves. L.S. R.N.; 311974 C.H. Millman. L.Sto. R.N.; 364534 T.J. Wickens. Act. L. Sto. R.N.; J.75919 G. Rudge. Ord. R.N.; S.S.105400 S.G. Potter. Sto.1 R.N.; J.93402 R.N. Vincent. Boy.1. R.N.; Ply.2019-S- Pte. L. Hall. R.M.L.I.; F.33924 A. Hipwell A.C.1 R.N.A.S.; A.E. Wood), file marks to fourth, initial officially corrected on penultimate, generally nearly very fine or better (10)

364534 Leading Stoker Thomas James Wickens, of Portsmouth; served in the Royal Navy during the Great War in H.M.S. Hampshire; killed in action, 5.6.1916, when the Hampshire, which had been present at the Battle of Jutland a week earlier, was mined and sank with the loss of over 600 lives, including that of Field Marshal the Lord Kitchener, in the North Sea off Orkney whilst conveying the Secretary of State for War to Russia, and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

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