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Auction: 20003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 385

Four: Leading Seaman J. E. S. Thomas, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who saw service with the Hawke Battalion in 1914, and then spent the majority of the war aboard the armed merchant cruiser Orotava patrolling the Atlantic

1914-1915 Star (B.4-984. [sic] J. E. S. Thomas, A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War Victory Medals (B.4-884 J. E. S. Thomas. L.S. R.N.V.R.); Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (4/884. J. E. S. Thomas, A.B. RNVR. Bristol. Div.), mounted as worn, pin lacking, good very fine (4)

James Edgar Stanley Thomas was born on 2 January 1883 at Stokes Croft, Bristol, where he worked as a dairyman. Thomas enrolled into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 30 January 1911 as an Ordinary Seaman (No.4/884) with the Bristol Division. With the outbreak of the Great War he was rated as an Able Seaman and mobilised, being then posted to the Royal Naval Division and seeing service with the Hawke Battalion from 22 August.

Thomas was then posted back to the Chatham Depot in late October 1914, and joined the crew of the armed merchant cruiser Orotava on 21 December 1914 and saw service with her through to December 1917. In this period she patrolled the North and South Atlantic. After a period of shore service, Thomas rejoined Orotava in March 1918, and served with her for the rest of the war, being advanced to Leading Seaman on 26 August 1918, he left her in December 1918, and was demobilised ashore in February 1919.


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Estimate
£100 to £140

Starting price
£80

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