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Auction: 13002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 291

Three: Stoker W.J. Eveleigh, Royal Navy, Killed in Action at the Battle of Jutland Aboard H.M.S. Invincible, 31.5.1916
1914-15 Star (K.14736. W.J. Eveleigh, Ch. Sto., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K.14736 W.J. Eveleigh. Sto.1 R.N.), extremely fine, with the recipient's Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (William John Eveleigh), with card holder; named card box of issue for the BWM and VM; and three post cards of H.M.S. Invincible (3)

K.14736 Stoker William John Eveleigh, born Symondsbury, Dorset, June 1889; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Stoker II Class, 23.4.1912; promoted Stoker I Class, 24.4.1913; transferred to H.M.S. Invincible, 3.8.1914, and served in her during the Great War; present at the Battle of Heligoland Bight, 28.8.1914, and the Battle of the Falklands, 8.12.1914, when H.M.S. Invincible and H.M.S. Inflexible sank the German armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau; killed in action at the Battle of Jutland, 31.5.1916, when H.M.S. Invincible suffered a direct hit to her midships magazine, which blew her in half, and sank within 90 seconds, with the loss of all but six of her crew of 1,032 Officers and ratings; Eveleigh is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

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