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Auction: 13002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 224

1914-15 Star (Mid. H.S. King. R.N.), nearly very fine

British War Medal (SS-8362 Pte. F.G. Kerby. A.S.C.), minor edge bruise, nearly very fine

Victory Medal (46246 Pte. J. Collins. Lan. Fus.), very fine

Miniature Awards: British War Medal; Victory Medal, very fine (5)

Sub-Lieutenant Henry Stuart King, Commissioned Midshipman, Royal Navy, 15.1.1914; promoted Sub-Lieutenant, 15.1.1916; served during the Great War in H.M.S. Indefatigable, and killed in action at the Battle of Jutland, 31.5.1916, when the Indefatigable was sunk with the loss of all but two of its crew of 1,019 men, and is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

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