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Auction: 24112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 726

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (20576 Henry Cooper, Mechn. H.M.S. Duke of Edinburgh.), good very fine

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C, G.V.R. (M.7394 W. C. Mason. Reg. P.O. H.M.S. Prince George.), very fine

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (211652 W.J.Searle, A.B. H.M.S. Queen.), very fine

Henry Cooper joined the Royal Navy on 11 November 1898. His Long Service & Good Conduct medal was awarded on 6 December 1913. Served on H.M.S. Queen for the duration of the Great War, serving in the Dardanelles in support of the landings at Cape Helles and at Anzac. Cooper was shore pensioned on 20 November 1920.

William Charles Mason born at London on 24 January 1886 enlisted in the Royal Marines on 11 October 1904 subsequently transferring to the Royal Navy on 18 October 1913. During the Great War he served on the depot ship H.M.S. Hecla. Shore pensioned on 10 October 1926 he was awarded his Long Service & Good Conduct Medal on 14 November 1919. Recalled on 20 November 1939 he served for one day before being discharged medically unfit. Mason died at Sittingbourne in 1958.

William James Searle was born at Stamshaw, Hampshire on 29 March 1885 and joined the Royal Navy aged 15 on 1 September 1900. He served on H.M.S. Queen for the duration of the Great War, being awarded his Long Service & Good Conduct Medal on 23 April 1918. Searle was shore pensioned on 28 March 1925 and died at Portsmouth on 14 March 1963.

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