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Auction: 16003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 83

Four: Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class J. Walmsley, Royal Navy, Killed in Action at the Battle of Jutland in H.M.S. Indefatigable, 31.5.1916
1914-15 Star (270409. J. Walmsley, C.E.R.A.1. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (270409 J. Walmsley. C.E.R.A.1 R.N.); Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ´Admiral´s bust´ type (270409. John Walmsley, C.E.R.A. 2.Cl. H.M.S. Indefatigable), nearly extremely fine, together with named box lids of issue and a copied photograph of the recipient with his family (4)

270409 Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class John Walmsley, born Manchester, December 1874; a Fitter and Turner by trade; enlisted, 11.3.1901 as Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class; served in H.M.S. Prometheus in the Far East from 1.10.1904; served as an Engineering Lecturer at Brittania Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, a family story states that he reprimanded the two young Princes who were both attending at the time; served in H.M.S. Indefatigable from 17.6.1913; served in the Royal Navy during the Great War; killed in action at the Battle of Jutland, aged 43, 31.5.1916, when Indefatigable suffered a number of direct hits to the magazine area and sank quickly with the loss of all but three of its 1,017 crew, and is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

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