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Auction: 24112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 447

The campaign group of three awarded to Petty Officer L.G. Heming, Royal Navy who was killed in action at Jutland on the destroyer H.M.S. Turbulent : 'caught in the searchlights of the enemy battleship Westfalen, she was literally blown to pieces at point-blank range'

1914-15 Star (237651, L. G. Heming, L.S., R.N.) officially corrected; Victory Medal (237651 L. G. Heming. P.O. R.N.); Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Lewis George Heming), contact marks, good very fine (3)

Lewis George Heming was born at Camberwell, London on 13 January 1891 and was a shop boy when he joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class in October 1906. He was initially posted to Impregnable, later serving in a number of vessels, including Egeria, Shearwater before joining Turbulent on 12 May 1916.

Heming was killed in action at Jutland with the destroyer Turbulent - caught in the searchlights of the enemy battleship Westfalen, she was 'literally blown to pieces' at point-blank range.

'The Turbulent, last of Goldsmith's line, found her way barred by the two leading battleships, and in an effort to get round their bows and follow the Petard, Lieutenant-Commander Stuart, turned parallel and increased to full speed. But she had been detected by the Westfalen and, at point-blank range, her doom was certain.

With a small turn to starboard the battleship was able to bring the whole of her port secondary battery to bear and literally blew the little ship to pieces'

(Jutland, by Captain Donald McIntyre, refers).

90 crew members died, and the surviving 13 became prisoners of war, Heming is commemorated upon the Chatham Naval Memorial; sold together with copied research.


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