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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 545

Three: Petty Officer Telegraphist S. Mitchell, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (205530, S. Mitchell, P.O. Tel., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (205530. S. Mitchell, P.O. Tel. R.N.), good very fine (3)

Sydney Mitchell was born at Liverpool in December 1883. A cushion trimmer by trade, he joined the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class in 1899. He attained the rank of Petty Officer Telegraphist in 1908 and, following service in the Great War, joined the Royal Fleet Reserve on being pensioned ashore in 1922. Interestingly, three of the ships he served on during his career were sunk in the Great War, namely Pegasus, Natal and Stephen Furness.

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