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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 292

Four: Chief Petty Officer C.A.W. Mather, Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Division
1914 Star, with Bar (206204 C.A.W. Mather, P.O. Nelson Bttn. R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (206204 C.A.W. Mather. P.O. R.N.); Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st 'Admiral's bust' type (206204 C.A.W. Mather P.O., H.M.S. Greenwich.), light contact marks, generally very fine, scarce, mounted as originally worn, with portrait photograph of recipient in uniform, reverse annotated in pencil 'This is for our mother' (lot)

206204 Chief Petty Officer Charles Arthur Watts Mather (1884-1945), born Maker, Cornwall; enlisted Royal Navy as Boy Second Class, September 1899; advanced Able Seaman, October 1903; Petty Officer 18.4.1913; served with Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Division, from 19.9.1914; subsequent service included H.M.S. Greenwich, 1916-18 (L.S. & G.C. 12.4.1917); Chief Petty Officer, 1.9.1920; 'Shore Pensioned' 10.4.1924, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve the following day.

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