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Auction: 13002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 287

(x) Four: Petty Officer A.L. Brown, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (234559 A.L. Brown, L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (234559 A.L. Brown. P.O. R.N.); Italy, Kingdom, Messina Earthquake Medal 1908, silver (A.L. Brown, L.S., H.M.S. "Minerva".), good very fine

234559 Petty Officer Albert Leslie Brown, born Shepherd's Bush, London, February 1889; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 22.8.1905; served in H.M.S. Minerva as Ordinary Seaman from 22.9.1908, during which time he participated in the rescue operations after the Messina Earthquake, 1908, and was one of the men from the Naval force who landed from the ships to give assistance; promoted Able Seaman, 12.2.1909; Leading Seaman, 5.2.1915; invalided out of the service, 18.3.1918.

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