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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 883

Four: Leading Seaman J. F. Cloke, Royal Naval Reserve

1914-15 Star (C.1970, J. F. Cloke. Smn., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (1970C. J. F. Cloke. L.S. R.N.R.); Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (C. 1970. J. F. Cloke, Ldg. Sea. R.N.R.), very fine and better (4)

James Francis Cloke was born on 15 December 1880 at Mevagissey, the son of Thomas Cloke, a fisherman of Mevagissey, Cornwall. A former St Austell china clay worker and Fowey fisherman himself, Cloke enrolled for the Royal Naval Reserve on 15 March 1911 and was appointed Leading Seaman at Devonport on 15 August 1916. Having served aboard Illustrious, Vengeance and the hired trawler Norse, Cloke was demobilised at Holyhead on 22 January 1919 and was later awarded a disability pension on account of a septic right leg.

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