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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 546

Three: Able Seaman B. Beane, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (J. 28261 B. Beane, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J. 28261 B. Beane, A.B., R.N.), the last with officially re-impressed naming, generally very fine (3)


Bertram Beane was born in Kensington, London in April 1897 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in November 1913. His subsequent seagoing appointments in the Great War included the cruiser, H.M.S. Bellona (August 1914-January 1917) and the escort ship Knight Templar (June 1917-April 1918). The latter ship was 'blown adrift' by the munitions explosion at Halifax, Nova Scotia in December 1917 and was afterwards damaged by a torpedo delivered by the U-53 off Eddystone Lighthouse on 7 April 1918. Beane came ashore in May 1920 and served briefly in the Royal Fleet Reserve; sold with copied service record.

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Sold for
£110