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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 301

A Fine and Complete 'Jutland' Casualty Group of Three to Able Seaman G. Vail, H.M.S. Queen Mary, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (J.16455, E.G. Vail. A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.16455 E.G. Vail. A.B. R.N.), extremely fine, with the recipient's Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Edward George Vail), and Parchment Memorial Scroll, all glazed and framed with a portrait photograph of recipient in uniform (3)

J.16455 Able Seaman George Vail, born Leyton, Essex, 1896; enlisted Royal Navy as Boy Second Class, 4.3.1912; service during the Great War included in H.M.S. King George V (battleship), before transferring to H.M.S. Queen Mary, 23.9.1915; he was killed in action 31.5.1916; on the latter date the Queen Mary was engaged as part of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet in action at Jutland; the Queen Mary scored two hits on S.M.S. Seydlitz before receiving fatal hits from the former and SMS Derfflinger; her magazines exploded and she sank; there were only 18 survivors, and Vail perished along with over 1,200 of his crewmen; Vail is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

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£580