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Auction: 24111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 519

(x) Four: Stoker Petty Officer A. Colbourne, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (K.8612 A. Colbourne. Sto.1. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K.8612 A. Colbourne. Sto.1. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (K.8612 A. Colbourne. A-L. Sto. H.M.S. Argus.), contact marks, very fine (4)

Alfred Colbourne was born on 5 March 1892 at Bournemouth, Hampshire and was a railway porter upon his joining the Royal Navy on 7 September 1910. During the Great War he served variously aboard Desperate and Hydra, being awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in September 1925. Colbourne was made Stoker Petty Officer in December 1927 whilst aboard Furious but was discharged ashore on 3 December 1930 having been rated 'mentally unstable'.

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