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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 552

Four: Officer's Steward Class II G. L. Gane, Royal Navy, who saw active service off the Dardanelles

1914-15 Star (117833 G. L. Gane, O.S 2., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (117833 G. L. Gane, O.S 2., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. and G.C. Medal, E.VII.R. (G. L. Gane, Dom. 2. Cl. H.M.S. Duke of Wellington), nearly extremely fine (4)

George Lloyd Gane was born on Alderney, Channel Islands in July 1861 and served as a Domestic 3rd Class aboard H.M.S. Assistance from December 1881. Released to pension in 1906, he was permitted to retain this alongside the subsequent pay from his recall in August 1914. His Great War service included King Alfred and Victory before joining Honeysuckle in June 1915. The flower class sloop served off the Dandanelles during the evacuation, being the command of Captain A. D. Boyle, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve. Gane was released in June 1919 at the age of 58.

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