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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 110

British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (M.10965. C. S. Pengelly. S.B.A. R.N.; M.15519 S. F. Marshall. P.S.B.A. R.N.; M.9477 W. J. Williams. J.R.A. R.N.), good very fine (3)

Charles Samuel Pengelly was born at Devonport on 17 October 1894 and was a printer by trade upon his joining the Royal Navy on 18 December 1914. Serving as a Sick Berth Attendant at the Royal Navy Hospital, Plymouth, Pengelly was struck down with meningitis and died on 15 July 1915. He is buried in the Plymouth (Weston Mill) Cemetery.

Samuel Frederick Marshall was born at Torquay on 3 April 1894 and was a shop assistant upon his joining the Royal Navy on 27 September 1915. Marshall remained in the Royal Navy and was a Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer upon being pensioned, with a L.S. & G.C. & 1937 Coronation Medal in September 1937. Returned to the fold for the Second World War, Marshall was invalided from the Royal Naval Hospital, Sherborne in July 1945.

William Jay Williams was born at Wilmslow on 24 April 1884 and was a checker by trade upon his joining the Royal Navy on 9 August 1914. He lost an eye whilst at Victory and was invalided in December 1914.

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