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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 130

Three: Lieutenant K. G. Hay, Royal Naval Reserve

1914-15 Star (Lieut. K. G. Hay, R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut K. G. Hay. R.N.R.), the second re-affixed and a little loose, very fine (3)

Keith Gordon Hay was born in 1880 at 'The Hollies', Elmers End, Bromley, London, the son of Thomas Hay of Milford, County Donegal, Ireland. He father served as a Master Mariner and Keith followed in his footsteps, earning his Certificate of Competency as First Mate of a foreign-going ship in the Merchant Service on 23 April 1907.

Commissioned Sub-Lieutenant in the R.N.R. in September 1915, Hay served at the Royal Navy gunnery school H.M.S. Excellent at Whale Island, Portsmouth, from 22 September 1915-23 October 1915. Posted to the Apollo-class cruiser Sappho - which had been converted to a minelayer - he then spent a little over a year on minelaying and patrol duties in British waters. Returning to Excellent on 11 December 1916, Hay subsequently joined the protected cruiser Juno on 10 February 1917, followed by a two week spell aboard Pyramus from 26 July 1917. He returned to Excellent on 9 August 1917 and saw out the rest of the war at shore establishments, being demobilised on 6 June 1919; sold with copied service record and Certificate of Competency.

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