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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 553

A good Great War campaign group of four awarded to Stoker Petty Officer H. F. G. Weller, Royal Navy, who saw action in H.M.S. Glasgow at the battles of the Coronel and Falklands in 1914



1914-15 Star (304530. H. F. G. Weller, S.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (304530. H. F. G. Weller. S.P.O., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (304530. H. F. G. Weller, S.P.O. H.M.S. Cormorant.), light pitting otherwise good very fine (4)

Henry Frederick George Weller was born in South Norwood, Surrey, in January 1885 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in 1903. By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he was serving as a Stoker Petty Officer in the light cruiser H.M.S. Glasgow, in which capacity he quickly saw action. Having captured the German steamship Santa Catherine on 16 August, Glasgow was present at the battle of the Coronel on 1 November 1914, when she was severely damaged by direct hits from the Dresden and Leipzig. Following hasty repairs, she was back in action a little over a month later, when she played a memorable part in the battle of the Falklands on 8 December; with her consort Kent, she chased down her old adversary Leipzig and sunk her. Weller, who was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in September 1918, was invalided ashore in 1920; sold with copied service record.

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