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Auction: 21102 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction 3
Lot: 118

Victory Medal 1914-19 (J.43626 J. Spiller. Boy 1 R.N.), verdigris, very fine

Walter John Spiller was the son of John and Naomi Spiller of Bridgwater, Somerset. He was killed by an internal explosion aboard Vanguard on 9 July 1917 at Scapa Flow, aged just 17. This devastating accident killed 843 of the crew with only two men surviving. Spiller is commemorated upon the Chatham Naval Memorial.

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