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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 344

Victory Medal (9) (162286 J.H. Phillips. C.P.O. R.N.; J.66700 R.W. Rowe. Ord. R.N.; J.89008. J. Talbot. Ord. R.N.; 215246 H.G. Haines. A.B. R.N.; 302043 W. Emery. Sto.1 R.N.; 280876 F. Pavitt. Sto.1 R.N.; J.91922 H Armitage Boy 1. R.N.; B.Z.3594 J. Merriman. Sig. R.N.V.R.; W.Z. 2365 S.H. Skidmore. A.B. R.N.V.R.), generally very fine or better, with a related Royal Life Saving Society Award of Merit, silver, reverse engraved ´Awarded to I. Talbot. 1938´ (9)

215246 Able Seaman Henry George Haines, of Swansea; served in the Royal Navy during the Great War in H.M.S. Mersey; killed in action, 6.7.1915, on which date the Mersey was in action with the German light cruiser Königsberg at the battle of Rufiji Delta, German East Africa, and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

302043 Stoker William Emery, born Brighton, July 1884; enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Stoker, 10.11.1902; discharged, 1.3.1919.

280876 Stoker 1st Class Frederick Pavitt, of Harlow, Essex; served in the Royal Navy during the Great War in H.M.S. Mary Rose; killed in action, 17.10.1917, when the Mary Rose, on convoy duties, was sunk in the North Sea by the German cruisers Brummer and Bremse, with the loss of most of her crew, and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.

J.91922 Able Seaman Harry Armitage, born Brighton, 19.4.1902; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 13.7.1918; promoted Able Seaman, 7.9.1920; discharged, 6.3.1929.

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