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Auction: 16003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 82

Five: Officer's Steward 1st Class H. Stephens, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (L.2821. H. Stephens. O.S.2., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (L.2821 H. Stephens. O.S.2. R.N.); Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st 'Admiral's bust' type (L.2821 H. Stephens. O.S.1. H.M.S. Cyclops.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st 'Admiral's bust' type (T.2821. H. Stephens., Off. Std. 1.Cl. "Vampire" 1, July-11, Nov. 1918.), the obverses a little polished, nearly very fine (5)

M.S.M. London Gazette 17.3.1919 Offrs. Std., 1st Cl., Harry Stephens, O.N. L2821
'For services in destroyers of the Grand Fleet between the 1st July and 11th November 1918.'

2821 Officer's Steward 1st Class Harry Stephens, born Kensington, London, July 1882; entered the Royal Navy as Officer's Steward 3rd Class, May 1911; promoted 2nd Class, February 1912; served with the Royal Navy during the Great War, initially aboard H.M.S. Laurel, present at the Battles of Heligoland Bight, Dogger Bank and Jutland; promoted 1st Class, June 1916; served aboard H.M.S. Greenwich, July 1916-May 1917; H.M.S Ithuriel, May-September 1917; H.M.S. Vampire, October 1917-November 1918; awarded the Naval L.S.G.C., July 1926.

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